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Tia Mowry, CJ McCollum, Gina Prince-Bythewood, KiKi Layne, Jacquece Jennings, & Dr. Alicia Cain · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: from Tennessee State University and the Harry Medical College. She
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Speaker 1: was an active member of the Black Panther Party during
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Speaker 1: the late sixties and early seventies. She is currently the
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Speaker 1: the CEO of Get your Refiel dot Com. Dr Alicia Kane,
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Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, It's done, and thank you for
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Speaker 1: having me. I'm very excited about um the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: speak to your glass audience. I appreciate it. I like
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Speaker 1: texts and and get words out and and it changes
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Speaker 1: the game. And so but I want to step back
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Speaker 1: a little bit right now because I want to talk
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Speaker 1: about your your career and your your academic training. You
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Speaker 1: are a double HBC. You graduate uh No the last
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Speaker 1: two years said last two years, there's been a huge
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Speaker 1: momentum for the academic success, capabilities accomplishments as being achieved
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Speaker 1: by people who have attended HBCUs are currently attending HBCUs.
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Speaker 1: Talk about your experience and talk about any motivational statements
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Speaker 1: you can say about HBC schools. Okay, So, I graduated
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Speaker 1: from Tennessee State University and also Mahrry Medical College. Prior
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Speaker 1: to attending Tennessee State University, I had attended Brooklyn College
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Speaker 1: in New York, which is not an HBCU, and my
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Speaker 1: experience there was quite different from my experience at Tennessee
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Speaker 1: State University. When you are in a majority school and
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Speaker 1: majority and quote, you don't get the I felt. I
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Speaker 1: did not get the attention, I did not get the motivation.
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Speaker 1: I did not get the help and career planning that
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Speaker 1: I received at Tennessee State University. And seeing people who
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Speaker 1: look like you as heads of departments, as your counselors,
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Speaker 1: as your as your everything. It changes you. It makes
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Speaker 1: you want to do better. It gives you hope. If
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Speaker 1: they can do it, I can do it. Plus, they
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Speaker 1: tend to have your same cultural background, so they know
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Speaker 1: where you are coming from, relatable stories, relatable experiences. You
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Speaker 1: know about the challenges you will face once you receive
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Speaker 1: this degree are currently facing as an everyday person of
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Speaker 1: color in this country, especially during that time and especially
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Speaker 1: the times we're living right now. It's just that the curtain.
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Speaker 1: Uh they say, there's a magic show, you know, the
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Speaker 1: wizard behind the curtain. We can see the wizard. He's
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Speaker 1: actually and now we're trying to let everybody know that
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Speaker 1: we're tired of that same game. And both both as
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Speaker 1: perfectly in the justice systems in the financial system. But
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Speaker 1: I just want to bring up Mahrry Medical College that
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Speaker 1: is a famous school for medical training. What makes that
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Speaker 1: school so special. That school is so special, very special
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Speaker 1: to me again because that is a African American run
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Speaker 1: school and you have the president, it is African American.
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Speaker 1: When my class graduated, I won't tell you the year
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Speaker 1: from years ago, we had the largest female ever at
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Speaker 1: Harry at that time. Now it's probably fifty fifty. And
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Speaker 1: so the time that those instructors took with us, just
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Speaker 1: seeing again you are what you see and just seeing
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Speaker 1: black doctors concentrated, caring about you, caring about your education.
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Speaker 1: It makes a difference because I did my residency in
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Speaker 1: a majority hospital, and the difference is proclound. Qualified to compete,
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Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about, qualified to compete, to to exhale.
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Speaker 1: You know, when I when I look at when when
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Speaker 1: you were talking about your class at the time, and
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Speaker 1: I look at African American women today, um most notably
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Speaker 1: for want slide in the politics, more likely that Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden's vice presidential Canada is probably going to be an
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Speaker 1: African American female. And I look at a lot of
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Speaker 1: the cities that are being run that have prominently created
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Speaker 1: prominent varces Washington, d City, Atlanta, Georgia. Stacy, you know,
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Speaker 1: these these these forces are proven to be very significant
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Speaker 1: and very because we all know in the democratic world
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Speaker 1: that the African American woman has played a prominent role
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Speaker 1: in the vote, in the vote, and she absolutely has,
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Speaker 1: and it's been ignored, it's not counted, it's not publicized.
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Speaker 1: And that's what that's why, you know, one of the
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Speaker 1: things that I got the opportunity to bring you on
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Speaker 1: the show, it was it was your activism, your your
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Speaker 1: strength and your because we're going to talk about all
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Speaker 1: your accomplices currently. But I always say it's a journey
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Speaker 1: to get through you. I have a journey in my life.
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Speaker 1: And when I when I talk about the Black Panther
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Speaker 1: organizations that that that something were basically undersieged by the
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Speaker 1: government where miss miss uh bad propaganda was put out
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Speaker 1: about them. You when I see uh, when I see
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Speaker 1: uh white man going up to the state capital of
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Speaker 1: Michigan carrying guns and then everybody going, I'm cool, aren't
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Speaker 1: you cool? You know what Black panthers were doing the
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Speaker 1: same thing and guess what shot at, killed, arrested. Talk
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Speaker 1: about your experience during that period and and if you
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Speaker 1: can't pull back the curtain a little bit and let
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Speaker 1: us know what exactly was the purpose and some of
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Speaker 1: the things that was done to undermine the Black Panther movement. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so as a teenager, I joined the Black Panther Party
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Speaker 1: along with a lot of the teenagers. And at that time,
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Speaker 1: you had Snick, you had Double a c P. You
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Speaker 1: had Malcolm X, you had Stokely call Michael. These are
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Speaker 1: all the people that I remember from my teenage years.
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Speaker 1: And and during that time, the Black Panther Party had
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Speaker 1: its own philosophy about you know, non don't lay them,
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Speaker 1: you know, don't just sit there peacefully. That was the philosophy.
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Speaker 1: But the other plosophy was community involvement. Some of the
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Speaker 1: things that the Panther Party asked for all of those
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Speaker 1: years ago, because you remember we're talking the sixties, early seventies.
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Speaker 1: One of the first things they said was an into
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Speaker 1: police brutality. So what's going on now is nothing new.
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Speaker 1: We want education, I'm trying to remember it from all
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Speaker 1: those years. We want education for our people. That's not new.
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Speaker 1: We want adequate housing and healthcare. These were the tenants
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Speaker 1: of the Black Panther Party, and the Black Panther Party
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Speaker 1: felt we could not get those rights because they were
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Speaker 1: all rights. We all pay taxes without without some strong
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Speaker 1: commands towards to the government and U and that led
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Speaker 1: to them being um counterprogrammed in a way with the media,
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Speaker 1: attacked by local police and UH and the government and
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Speaker 1: killed and killed. I've known people in the party who
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Speaker 1: were killed. And that's the same part about it, and
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Speaker 1: in the same part about it is that as I
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Speaker 1: watch America open up, it's an old wound that's always
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Speaker 1: been there. We've all people of color, you know, always
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Speaker 1: tell peoplehen I walk in the room, or you know
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Speaker 1: who I am. Okay, I am a black man walking
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Speaker 1: to the room. That is nothing I can disguise. And
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Speaker 1: so that means that I've had to compete against my
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Speaker 1: own skin color all my life. And that's not fat.
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Speaker 1: That's not fat. And so you've you've been in a
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Speaker 1: competitive world all your life as well, but that has
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Speaker 1: not slowed your success story. Let's let's start with let's
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Speaker 1: move a little bit from the medical, let's movement from
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Speaker 1: the activism. Let's go to you, being the CEO and
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Speaker 1: always concerned about the image that we have, and I
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Speaker 1: feel that our image is uh not. We are not
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Speaker 1: given the best image in main street media. And so
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Speaker 1: as I have a daughter and I was of course
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Speaker 1: I'm a black woman, and the images we have we
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Speaker 1: just don't We just don't see ourselves in a positive
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Speaker 1: like we don't see our hair, we don't see our beauty,
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Speaker 1: I strongly feel that you are what you see and
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12:30
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12:33
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12:36
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12:39
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12:43
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12:46
Speaker 1: loaning for hey, this is me and but your magazine
12:49
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12:55
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Speaker 1: about this. But when you talk about fashion, you talk
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Speaker 1: about beauty, you talk about hair, which is the very
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Speaker 1: core of not only just the African American community, but
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Speaker 1: community of color. So just before we go we leave
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Speaker 1: It's very empowering when you see your images in a
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13:42
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13:49
Speaker 1: people don't know that there are a lot of schools
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13:55
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Speaker 1: And also you're currently the physicians that SEEO or met
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Speaker 1: and included in that practice is a veteran service. Uh
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Speaker 1: A lot, a large portion of my medical practice is
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Speaker 1: geared towards helping veterans get their medical benefits that they
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Speaker 1: deserve or that they are qualified to get. But a
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Speaker 1: lot of them have been denied. So they come to me.
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Speaker 1: I go through all of their medical records and I
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Speaker 1: I have argued for them all the way up to
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Speaker 1: a lot of veterans don't know what they can claim,
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Speaker 1: but when they are, when they claim it, if they
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Speaker 1: got injured doing the service, and when they claim it,
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Speaker 1: they get denied. And so I helped them to reverse
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Speaker 1: that denial. I helped them to get their claims. I've
16:34
Speaker 1: been doing it for the past ten years. And then
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Speaker 1: this is really kind of weird. Somebody went service of
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Speaker 1: the country right back over here. Can you get an
16:46
Speaker 1: example right giving the name or we know the example
16:49
Speaker 1: who you're talking about. Give us a couple of examples.
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Speaker 1: What because right now I'm confused, you know as to
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Speaker 1: why you should be denying somebody acclaimed when the injury
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Speaker 1: was caused under doing the service of the country. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So what happens is the veterans while he's in the military,
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Speaker 1: if if he if he doesn't go to sit call,
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Speaker 1: then there's no documentation of his illness. And from what
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Speaker 1: the veterans tell me, they're told while they're in the military,
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Speaker 1: if you go to sit call, your Nami Pammy, suck
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Speaker 1: it up. You know that here they're discoverage discourage from
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Speaker 1: going to sick call. So when they come out and say, oh,
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Speaker 1: I have a shoulder injury, then the then the v
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Speaker 1: able say, well, where's your documentation to catch wol So
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Speaker 1: what happens when I go through the medical records, I
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Speaker 1: can pick up terminology that the veterans, you know, he's
17:43
Speaker 1: not capable of picking up that terminology. Or I can
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Speaker 1: go back and say no, these were symptoms of this condition,
17:51
Speaker 1: or yes he had this even if I find one sentence,
17:55
Speaker 1: so he can be denied because when he comes out,
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Speaker 1: they'll say, well, it didn't happen in the military, or
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Speaker 1: you had it before you went into the military, or
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Speaker 1: it was not exacerbated by the military. Those are the
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Speaker 1: three types of claim and that's my job. I tell
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Speaker 1: a veteran, don't worry. It's my job to prove it.
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Speaker 1: And we have I don't even advertise. It's all word
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Speaker 1: of mouth to the veterans, and we have like a
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Speaker 1: ninety i'd say success rate. Congratulations the veterans out here,
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Speaker 1: because I'm kind of confused to you, Okay, cool, uh.
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Speaker 1: I thought there was a medical plan. My my younger brother,
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Speaker 1: he served in the army, and if you had, aren't
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Speaker 1: aren't all farmer military men covered by a medical plan?
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Speaker 1: We'll say medical and and and benefit medical, right and
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Speaker 1: claims two different services. I get veterans that saying, well,
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Speaker 1: I was in the military and I'm being treated in
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Speaker 1: the military. Okay, they separate medical and claim claims. Is
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Speaker 1: you're going to get a monthly check for your claims.
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Speaker 1: Right medical, You're going to get medical treatment. Okay, So okay,
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Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. So you're saying that you're
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Speaker 1: going over behalf of someone who has an injury that
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Speaker 1: should get it, should file a claim, and not so
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Speaker 1: much about treatment. It's about a claim. It's about a claim, right,
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Speaker 1: and getting a monthly check for injuries sustained during the military,
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Speaker 1: and some of those injuries don't show up until years later.
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Speaker 1: For instance, off the Vietnam veterans, now they know that
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Speaker 1: the Vietnam in Vietnam, the spray cause diabetes, prostate cancer,
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Speaker 1: heart conditions, and it might not show up until years later.
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Speaker 1: So it's my job to know this, to know all
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Speaker 1: the rules, to know all the regulations, to know how
19:48
Speaker 1: you can win your claim. So just clear up from
19:51
Speaker 1: our listeners, this is not about medical care. This is
19:54
Speaker 1: about claims and being a flame. You said spray. Can
19:59
Speaker 1: you explain to us acted what you mean when you
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Speaker 1: say the word sprayed. During the Vietnam War. Okay, during
20:04
Speaker 1: the Vietnam War, they had agent orange right about that.
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Speaker 1: It was called agent orange, right, and it was a
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Speaker 1: type of spray, a type of chemical that they sprayed
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Speaker 1: on the foliage in Vietnam to kill the foliage. So
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Speaker 1: it's like like we killer almost right. So what happens
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Speaker 1: is the veterans had to spray this obviously, and a
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Speaker 1: lot of them were exposed and the conditions didn't show
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Speaker 1: up until years later. So now if you're a veteran,
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Speaker 1: you have if you're in Vietnam, you have diabetes, you
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Speaker 1: have uh prostate cancer, you have a heart condition, you
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Speaker 1: let's just start going back years now. Now she's a
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Speaker 1: the money, make a conversation to start Netflix number one
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Speaker 1: most watch family show. Family Reunion was before I say anything,
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you are still wearing those awesome suits
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Speaker 1: that you to wear every single day. Y'all. This man
32:28
Speaker 1: would show up clean every single day. All the writers,
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Speaker 1: the T shirts, you know, Uncle Blue Gean, not Rashad,
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Speaker 1: I never I never forgot it, you know, because it's
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Speaker 1: I thank you for that. And because you know you,
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Speaker 1: you guys played an important role in my life and
33:02
Speaker 1: also playing an important role and uh and teams, especially
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Speaker 1: I cared you guys from high school to your college
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Speaker 1: years when I was in the show, you know, which
33:17
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Speaker 1: some riture starts here, and uh, if y'all wanted y'all
33:24
Speaker 1: realized y'all your role in life and things like that,
33:27
Speaker 1: and and and but it was really growing up in
33:31
Speaker 1: that bottle. It was a bottle because a fish bowlers
33:34
Speaker 1: some people saying, and being able to step out there
33:37
Speaker 1: and grow uh as a as a child star and
33:41
Speaker 1: then becoming an adult star. Talk about that during a
33:44
Speaker 1: little bit before we get into the actual a lot
33:47
Speaker 1: of different story points. I want to talk about you
33:49
Speaker 1: all the successes to have right now. You know, I
33:52
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Speaker 1: parents that will have the parents that I have, UM
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Speaker 1: during that time because as we all know, when you're
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Speaker 1: a child in this industry, it could be really, really harsh.
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Speaker 1: And and the reason why I say that is because
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Speaker 1: a lot of the time you don't see these you know,
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Speaker 1: young child actors make that transition. UM. You know, some
34:18
Speaker 1: of them end up. I mean a lot of them
34:21
Speaker 1: ended up. You know, there were suicide, um, drug addiction.
34:26
Speaker 1: But my mom and my dad they really really protect
34:29
Speaker 1: us from that. And I think, if I can make
34:31
Speaker 1: this long story short, what really helped was my mom
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Speaker 1: used to always tell us, do not let this business
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Speaker 1: define who you are as a person. And it was
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Speaker 1: so beneficial to me because she made me realize that,
34:46
Speaker 1: you know, Hollywood is very sickle, meaning one minute you
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Speaker 1: could be hot and then the next minute you could
34:51
Speaker 1: be not hot. So if you really hold on to
34:55
Speaker 1: defining yourself, um, you know, with you know, having this
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Speaker 1: then when it falls for a minute, you know, you
35:07
Speaker 1: could find yourself into deep depression. You can find stuff
35:10
Speaker 1: going to substance abuse and you know, suicidal thoughts. Um.
35:14
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it was easy. It was very
35:16
Speaker 1: hard because, like I said, it happens to almost every
35:19
Speaker 1: child actor. One minute you're on a show and making
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Speaker 1: lots of money, and then the next minute you're not
35:24
Speaker 1: and nobody cares about you. So my mom she really
35:27
Speaker 1: prepared us mentally to allow us to see that, you know,
35:32
Speaker 1: you don't need to define yourself, and that you know,
35:35
Speaker 1: define yourself in your character, to find yourself in your integrity,
35:37
Speaker 1: to find yourself in being a good, kind hearted person
35:40
Speaker 1: and continue to work hard and go after your dreams
35:43
Speaker 1: and never give up. And that's what really, you know,
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Speaker 1: that's what really helped me or guided me, you know,
35:50
Speaker 1: into being you know, an older you know actor. Absolutely,
35:55
Speaker 1: and I agree because you know, I know her mom.
35:58
Speaker 1: She was on set all the time. I've know sets
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Speaker 1: with other children child child stars, and sometimes the parents
36:03
Speaker 1: will show up, sometimes they wouldn't show up, And that
36:05
Speaker 1: effected these kids that I see because I've been I've
36:08
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36:10
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36:17
Speaker 1: lives or what happened to my life get pigeoned, and
36:21
Speaker 1: she was always there. We always had great conversations and mean,
36:24
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Speaker 1: had my suits, I'm talking to mama. Just let y'all
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36:34
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36:37
Speaker 1: that the YouTube channel? You know you got the you
36:41
Speaker 1: know you got everybody got social media. Everybody got social media. Okay,
36:44
Speaker 1: you know you're popping. You're supposed to have social media. Okay,
36:46
Speaker 1: you know you've got following news and all that stuff. TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
36:52
Speaker 1: but the YouTube channels where you can really when people
36:56
Speaker 1: start following you and subscribing to YouTube channel thousands, Yeah,
37:05
Speaker 1: it's crazy, it's crazy, you know. Like you said, a
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Speaker 1: lot of people have YouTube channels. But for me, where
37:15
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37:21
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37:31
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37:37
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38:28
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38:31
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38:35
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38:40
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38:43
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38:56
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38:58
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39:02
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39:14
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39:16
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39:19
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39:24
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39:26
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39:28
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39:35
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39:39
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39:41
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39:44
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39:46
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39:54
Speaker 1: I look at you know, here's the deal. She was
39:56
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40:03
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40:23
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Speaker 1: I smiled the most till on the YouTube channel because
40:42
Speaker 1: I know that's you that's you, that's your lane, that's
40:47
Speaker 1: your passion that's come here. This is not the script,
40:51
Speaker 1: This is not a sitcom, this is not the reality show.
40:55
Speaker 1: This is me and seven hundred and twenty six thousand
40:58
Speaker 1: and counting. Have it we love? Yes? Yes, yes, you know,
41:04
Speaker 1: we also have a Facebook channel and on the so
41:07
Speaker 1: all together with the Timori Quit Fixed Hub or community,
41:11
Speaker 1: we have about two point four million followers, so we
41:15
Speaker 1: have one point for yes, we have one point four
41:18
Speaker 1: million followers on Facebook and we haven't We're we haven't
41:21
Speaker 1: even hit three years yet. This is just like two
41:23
Speaker 1: two and a half year. We have one point four
41:25
Speaker 1: million followers on Facebook and then we're at like four
41:29
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty something thousand on Instagram. But you're absolutely right.
41:32
Speaker 1: And you know, um, I was looking at Will Smith's
41:37
Speaker 1: you know, YouTube channel, and he was I was reading
41:40
Speaker 1: something about him and he was saying that and I
41:42
Speaker 1: resonated because he was saying that he really really loved
41:45
Speaker 1: doing his YouTube channel. Because again, there's no script, nobody's
41:49
Speaker 1: telling you what to do. I get to take controls
41:52
Speaker 1: of what I want, what my content is, and I
41:57
Speaker 1: know my audience more than anybody anybody, and I'm giving
42:04
Speaker 1: the power to be able to, you know, create what
42:09
Speaker 1: I believe my fans will like and also create what
42:12
Speaker 1: I like to do. So that's what you're saying. You're
42:14
Speaker 1: seeing that authenticity, You're seeing that enthusiasm, you're seeing mia
42:19
Speaker 1: you know, and it's great to be able to tap
42:21
Speaker 1: into that. And that's what that's why I wanted to
42:24
Speaker 1: start with that. Just let you know that. Uh, I
42:27
Speaker 1: love watching it. I love watching your smile. I love
42:30
Speaker 1: the difference in theo. You know, you're cooking, you're baking,
42:33
Speaker 1: you you have your your birthday point you you know.
42:36
Speaker 1: That's It's like if you was on the network. You
42:37
Speaker 1: can't do that. Stick to the show. You can't bake
42:40
Speaker 1: one episode and and tire and motivate the next episode.
42:44
Speaker 1: You can't do that. Not only that, No, and let
42:46
Speaker 1: me tell you something bill with you Okay, So you
42:52
Speaker 1: know I had a cooking show. I had a cooking
42:54
Speaker 1: show cooking channel with Yeah with um called Tiamore at
42:59
Speaker 1: Home and it was on the sister network of Food Network.
43:02
Speaker 1: And what was so it lasted for three years. But
43:04
Speaker 1: what was so interesting was and what I've learned as
43:07
Speaker 1: a businesswoman is when you're on somebody else's show, you're
43:12
Speaker 1: having to have to tap into their brand. So I
43:15
Speaker 1: had to tap into the Food Network brand, which was
43:19
Speaker 1: and is predominantly Middle America, which is fine and which
43:23
Speaker 1: is okay, But like I said, I really know where
43:27
Speaker 1: my my audiences. I know how old they are, I
43:31
Speaker 1: know they're demographic. And so it becomes a little stifling
43:36
Speaker 1: when you have to put yourself in some sort of
43:39
Speaker 1: you know, box, because I would want to do certain
43:42
Speaker 1: recipes and they're like, sorry, we can't do that recipe
43:45
Speaker 1: because it doesn't cater to such and such and such,
43:48
Speaker 1: and I'm like, but but see, that's what's so beautiful
43:55
Speaker 1: about having your own YouTube channel. You're able to feel
44:00
Speaker 1: you come false, false, but you know it's so beautiful
44:12
Speaker 1: that you know, you know, all I do is marketing.
44:14
Speaker 1: I do marketing and branding and look at individual talents
44:17
Speaker 1: and I just see that. You know that that's that's
44:20
Speaker 1: a mature decision, because that's what I leave about watching
44:24
Speaker 1: you grow because I think two weeks ago use that
44:26
Speaker 1: seven two thousand subscribers and listening to much. I'm just
44:31
Speaker 1: telling you that's crazy. That I mean, that is loved.
44:34
Speaker 1: That is like people sharing that means when you because
44:37
Speaker 1: you know YouTube works like this, what happens is it
44:39
Speaker 1: since our notifications every time you upload a video. That's
44:43
Speaker 1: how YouTube works, and so then people will share these
44:45
Speaker 1: videos and they be inspired. And so I just I
44:48
Speaker 1: just know that when I when I see you taking
44:51
Speaker 1: control of your brand and being able to have something
44:54
Speaker 1: to say about your brand, that's powerful. Dude, I stop,
44:57
Speaker 1: and I don't want you to stop on television, but
45:00
Speaker 1: it's always nice to be somewhere said you know something.
45:02
Speaker 1: I feel like baking the day and I feel like that,
45:06
Speaker 1: go out there and stand up for your rights. I
45:08
Speaker 1: feel like talking to entrepreneurs today. I feel like you
45:11
Speaker 1: know something. I feel like going shopping and putting go
45:14
Speaker 1: pearl on my head and go shopping. Okay, yes, yes,
45:17
Speaker 1: but you know what they all stover Sean. It comes
45:19
Speaker 1: from excuse me. For me, it comes from inspiration because
45:24
Speaker 1: I know that there are a lot of people out
45:27
Speaker 1: there that our moms and that are juggling um that
45:32
Speaker 1: want to know how to cook or want to know
45:34
Speaker 1: how to how do you get around the grocery store.
45:37
Speaker 1: So for me, it's about showing how I do it
45:40
Speaker 1: so I can inspire somebody else. To do it, you
45:43
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So yeah, like you said, it
45:45
Speaker 1: kind of becomes that chain effect, and then when people
45:48
Speaker 1: are inspired, they're like, okay, well let me follow this girl,
45:50
Speaker 1: you know, because I can learn something from her, and
45:52
Speaker 1: then you know, you know something, it becomes more than
45:55
Speaker 1: just being a fan. It's not a fan anymore. You know,
45:58
Speaker 1: you're you are expert, you are a person that you
46:02
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying it Really it becomes that you
46:04
Speaker 1: become you becomes an influence, and influence is a very
46:08
Speaker 1: powerful term, and it's not being a follower. That means
46:12
Speaker 1: people value your your thoughts, value the direction, value your opinion,
46:18
Speaker 1: and that's all we have a want out of life.
46:19
Speaker 1: Because as an actor, you know, I'm just going to
46:22
Speaker 1: be truthful about this because sometimes you know, if you're
46:25
Speaker 1: out there just and you want an oscar people, were
46:27
Speaker 1: you a great actor? You know, she's really funny comedian,
46:30
Speaker 1: he's a great singer. When did YouTube channel? Here at
46:34
Speaker 1: YouTube channel, it's a different message. Okay, value, you're right,
46:42
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, you're right. And you know, if we
46:46
Speaker 1: were to get really technical, technical girl, it's actually harder
46:51
Speaker 1: to build a YouTube audience because of that. You know
46:56
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, it's harder for people to follow UM,
47:01
Speaker 1: to get that follower from a YouTuber UM as opposed
47:06
Speaker 1: to you know, on Facebook or on Instagram. So you know,
47:10
Speaker 1: I'm very very happy and very pleased with you know
47:14
Speaker 1: what we're doing over at you know, Timor's quick faces,
47:17
Speaker 1: and you know, we have some other really cool ideas
47:20
Speaker 1: that UM I can't share right now, but you know,
47:23
Speaker 1: back to right now. That means you gotta come back
47:26
Speaker 1: on my show. That's what that means. You know. Okay,
47:30
Speaker 1: let's not dig. Let's talk about cooking, because I brought
47:33
Speaker 1: you the show talking about this book that I've asked.
47:35
Speaker 1: He sent me the book. You know, a whole new you,
47:39
Speaker 1: whole new you. Okay, yeah, you know I can cook.
47:42
Speaker 1: I'm just doing. Let you know, your boy flying with
47:44
Speaker 1: the suits, but your boy flying the kitchen too, okay,
47:46
Speaker 1: award winning baker. You know what, I never knew that
47:48
Speaker 1: about you. I didn't know what need I didn't know. Okay,
47:51
Speaker 1: I'll just let you know. Okay, so and so and
47:55
Speaker 1: so I went through the book and I've already tried
47:57
Speaker 1: some recipes. Okay, I'm gonna just tell you I am
48:00
Speaker 1: a nut for the season for caeeson salads. Okay, So
48:04
Speaker 1: when I saw seeson, salad has to be my all
48:07
Speaker 1: time favorite salad. And when I saw season, yes, it's that.
48:13
Speaker 1: It's that little salty taste that you can get in.
48:15
Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying, and it's it's a
48:17
Speaker 1: very simple. It's very simple. You just put the ladders,
48:22
Speaker 1: drop it tomato in there. You're happy. You're happy. That's
48:24
Speaker 1: a season salad. You know. Cream spinach's Secondly, whenever I
48:29
Speaker 1: go out to a steakhouse, I always ordered a cream spinach.
48:33
Speaker 1: I have never seen the restaurant. I'm not saying that.
48:35
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe just wasn't looking. But when I saw cream
48:38
Speaker 1: spinach in your cookbook, your ball was super happy. Now
48:42
Speaker 1: this was this when you won't cut you on the girl,
48:43
Speaker 1: you won't cut you on me? And I made him.
48:45
Speaker 1: I ate him for lunch today, smoky collar dreams. Yes,
48:50
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that is my lunch to day. Ate
48:54
Speaker 1: them for lunch today. Made him last night, I had
48:59
Speaker 1: just my hair for I have me some I have
49:01
Speaker 1: had me some corn bread, okay, I have me some
49:04
Speaker 1: macaron and cheese okay, and then you know I can
49:08
Speaker 1: make me I got a meme mac and cheesecpe. You
49:13
Speaker 1: know what? You know what the key to the macintee
49:17
Speaker 1: cream of mushroom. Have we ever tried cream of mudroom? No?
49:21
Speaker 1: I have no, you have to it is so I
49:26
Speaker 1: just got your I just got this. Okay, well that
49:30
Speaker 1: well that's that's not the mac and cheese is not
49:32
Speaker 1: in this book. But you can find my mac and
49:34
Speaker 1: cheese on line. So just look at here's the funny.
49:39
Speaker 1: Here's just a cool thing about now. You never follow
49:42
Speaker 1: my Facebook. I got like I'm not tia, Okay, I
49:45
Speaker 1: got like about eight Facebook Okay, but but I'm a
49:50
Speaker 1: foodie though, Okay, Like on Tuesday, I post baker Spotlight
49:54
Speaker 1: Spotlight bakers every everyday, bakers on Tuesdays and Fridays, when said,
49:58
Speaker 1: I got my girl's chef to me because she po
50:00
Speaker 1: was her favorite the recipes, and then on then on
50:03
Speaker 1: then I do uh rushawn eats on Wednesday, and then
50:06
Speaker 1: on Saturday, Patti LaBelle she she's seen me videos, and
50:10
Speaker 1: I post some of her favorite videos that she's cooking
50:13
Speaker 1: in so tee, if you don't mind, I post some
50:15
Speaker 1: of your stuff on my Facebook page because the people
50:18
Speaker 1: love my food. If you go there, you say anything
50:20
Speaker 1: that's posted with food, and you go, this is crazy.
50:23
Speaker 1: They just love this dude, he's the cake. I would
50:28
Speaker 1: love that. I would love that. And you know my
50:31
Speaker 1: I tell you I make my greens all the time.
50:34
Speaker 1: And I actually have another recipe onto you More's quick fix.
50:37
Speaker 1: That's a shorter version where you don't have to you know,
50:40
Speaker 1: kind of um cook them for like three to four hours.
50:43
Speaker 1: That's actually a shorter version. And during this quarantine, I've
50:46
Speaker 1: made it several times, and I put some bacon bits
50:49
Speaker 1: like I make, um, you know, I cut some bacon,
50:51
Speaker 1: cut up some bacon, and I you know, sallte that
50:53
Speaker 1: up to they're really nice and christy, and then I
50:55
Speaker 1: throw that like just bring it all over the color greens.
50:59
Speaker 1: Oh god, lets let's face because because it's such a
51:05
Speaker 1: weird conversation in a good way, because we're just talking
51:08
Speaker 1: and we actually doing the interview here, you know that, right,
51:10
Speaker 1: we're not on the sofa. Now, we're not on well
51:12
Speaker 1: t we're not on sofa. Ta Okay. Now here's something
51:16
Speaker 1: that really caught my eye. I am such a huge fame.
51:19
Speaker 1: We're talking about your cookbook, whole new you Okay, roasted
51:23
Speaker 1: beat salad. Girl, you know how what a nut I
51:26
Speaker 1: am for beats. I really god, I love going to
51:31
Speaker 1: the restaurant, but every restaurant can't do beats, you know,
51:35
Speaker 1: they make them into these big old chunks, and I go,
51:38
Speaker 1: really really really yeah, okay, you you have to like hart, Yes, okay,
51:45
Speaker 1: you have to try the the roasted rainbow carrets rusty.
51:49
Speaker 1: I make that several times, and that's so good too.
51:52
Speaker 1: The thing about me and whenever I cook, and if
51:54
Speaker 1: you follow you know QUI six or if you um,
51:59
Speaker 1: you know, look through my book. And then the main
52:01
Speaker 1: thing about this cookbook is, you know, I wrote it
52:05
Speaker 1: and I was inspired because I was dealing with something
52:07
Speaker 1: called endometriosis. And I absolutely love food. But when you
52:10
Speaker 1: have a highly inflammatory condition like endometriosis, you have to
52:13
Speaker 1: stay away from certain foods that exacerbate the inflammation in
52:16
Speaker 1: your body. But for me, I love food. So my
52:19
Speaker 1: point is is that even though it's healthy, it has
52:23
Speaker 1: to be very tasteful. It has to have flavor. So
52:26
Speaker 1: that's one thing about you know, these recipes that you
52:30
Speaker 1: will see that it's you know, instead of using regular milk,
52:34
Speaker 1: it'll use you know, non dairy alternatives. Um, but you
52:39
Speaker 1: will not be sacrificing on that labor. So my point
52:42
Speaker 1: is that the beat the caesar salad and the carrots,
52:46
Speaker 1: even though those are like more on the healthier side,
52:49
Speaker 1: they're so finger looking good because you know, there's a
52:53
Speaker 1: lot of flavor in there. But I throw that in there.
52:58
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just going through word. This is a
53:00
Speaker 1: quick it's tears, quick fix. This is rushan quick look
53:03
Speaker 1: in the in the cookbook, okay, okay. And the and
53:06
Speaker 1: to close it out, you really you really shut me
53:09
Speaker 1: down with the classic hammas. Oh my god, oh yes,
53:13
Speaker 1: oh yes, oh yes, I love hamas. I love hummus
53:20
Speaker 1: saiki too. Oh my god, you put them to in
53:24
Speaker 1: front of me. Girl. I'm on, I don't know if
53:25
Speaker 1: I'm on a diet, but I'm eating like I'm on
53:27
Speaker 1: a diet. No. Yeah, And you know, hommas you can,
53:31
Speaker 1: you know, you can do it so many you know,
53:33
Speaker 1: different things. Um and and you know what I like
53:36
Speaker 1: to do is I just like to create some sort
53:39
Speaker 1: of like a snack, you know what I mean. I'll
53:42
Speaker 1: do the hummas and then I'll chop up some cucumbers
53:45
Speaker 1: with some carrots and then I'll put you know, whatever,
53:47
Speaker 1: all of the choice that you like, and then you
53:49
Speaker 1: even can throw some crassers in there. And that's what
53:51
Speaker 1: you can put humus on. Or sometimes what a lot
53:53
Speaker 1: of people do is they used to peter bread. But
53:54
Speaker 1: that right there is a very healthy, feeling delicious meal
54:00
Speaker 1: or snack. But not only that. You realize when you
54:02
Speaker 1: buy hummus from the grocery store, those things, especially when
54:06
Speaker 1: it's organic, could be like around five dollars. When you
54:09
Speaker 1: make the homics to yourself, you can, you know, add
54:13
Speaker 1: more salt, more garlic or whatever you want and it's cheaper.
54:17
Speaker 1: So I have a big old bowl, I put some
54:21
Speaker 1: I put it a cap on it, I put it,
54:24
Speaker 1: slide it in the center, share for the refrigerant, and
54:26
Speaker 1: just be eating. I just telling the truth. Now, See
54:30
Speaker 1: when you make your own harmless it's never a small
54:32
Speaker 1: portion you make homies, yes you do. You get your
54:37
Speaker 1: celery stick, Okay, get that celery. Know your b Rashan
54:43
Speaker 1: is happy. Okay, Okay, we've got a few minutes left.
54:46
Speaker 1: We've got a few minutes left. We gotta talk about
54:47
Speaker 1: this wonderful family reunion. It's some other things we can
54:51
Speaker 1: talk about, but I know I cannot leave this talk
54:53
Speaker 1: about the sitcoms on Netflix, and I'm one most watched
54:55
Speaker 1: family show. A good friend of mine who I mentor,
54:58
Speaker 1: Anthony Hill. It is one of the producers on the show.
55:01
Speaker 1: That's my that's my youngster. Okay, and uh, I'm so
55:06
Speaker 1: proud of him. When I watched his growth. He was
55:08
Speaker 1: from Houston, Texas, and he came up to one day
55:10
Speaker 1: he said, I want to be a writer. I said,
55:12
Speaker 1: while you're standing in Houston talking to me, Okay, he's
55:16
Speaker 1: just watching success. He's on your show. So I feel
55:19
Speaker 1: I have an angel, you know, looking out for you.
55:22
Speaker 1: Even though I many years ago and the nannies, I
55:25
Speaker 1: was looking out for you and watching you grow. And
55:27
Speaker 1: you can you see him watch you as adults. I
55:30
Speaker 1: caught you with a teenager going to college. Now you're mama,
55:34
Speaker 1: now your MoMA on TV. He got you as a mama,
55:40
Speaker 1: I know, but not just any mamaka. Shout out to
55:46
Speaker 1: Anthony because and that's so cool to know that you
55:48
Speaker 1: mentored him, because he is huh hilarious. He has me
55:53
Speaker 1: laughing so hard one he's funny and it's a blessing
55:59
Speaker 1: to have, you know, on on set. But you know,
56:03
Speaker 1: I do play a mama, but not any old kind
56:05
Speaker 1: of mama and teaps me cool. He sees me the
56:08
Speaker 1: fun cool, you know, stylish. I know, I know you
56:15
Speaker 1: want to know that's my mama. You know you wanna
56:17
Speaker 1: know that's my mama. You and you know you tell
56:19
Speaker 1: your mama, you know. Yeah, but it's great, And were
56:25
Speaker 1: talking about that. We're talking about their Family Union, which
56:27
Speaker 1: is on Netflix. When I see names like Richard Rowntree,
56:31
Speaker 1: I see names like Loretta Divine, I see names like Hapkins.
56:36
Speaker 1: To be on the show with that much working history, yeah,
56:40
Speaker 1: tell us about it. Yes, I am in heaven every
56:44
Speaker 1: single day, like I love going to work. And Loretta Divine.
56:49
Speaker 1: I always say this is so cliche, but she is
56:51
Speaker 1: so divine. She's taught me what's so amazing about her
56:55
Speaker 1: as an actress is it's not only as an actress,
56:57
Speaker 1: just as a woman, a black woman being in this business.
57:00
Speaker 1: She's taught me how to She's gentle, you know what
57:04
Speaker 1: I mean. Like, Laretta Divine is so o divine. But
57:07
Speaker 1: when she sees something that she doesn't agree with, when
57:12
Speaker 1: she's feeling something that she will stand up and I
57:16
Speaker 1: just love to witness that. And I tell her that
57:19
Speaker 1: all the time, because you know she has to yourself.
57:21
Speaker 1: But I said, aport to it when she like really
57:27
Speaker 1: like stands up for what she believes in. And you know,
57:30
Speaker 1: I've been in this business for such a long time,
57:32
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be very honest with you from an
57:35
Speaker 1: actor standpoint, I never had that strength saying I don't
57:42
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is working for me or
57:45
Speaker 1: I feel like like she's you know, and of course
57:48
Speaker 1: she's earned it because she's a legend um. But it's
57:51
Speaker 1: so beautiful to see her just command of seeing command
57:56
Speaker 1: of the stage, just you know, be in her presence.
57:58
Speaker 1: And then Richard Richard, when I say, this is the
58:03
Speaker 1: coolest man that he this man and I'm not kidding
58:08
Speaker 1: he he has a cigar and he walks around with
58:11
Speaker 1: a cigar. And what I love about him is, you know,
58:14
Speaker 1: we share trailer, so um, I'm on one side, he's
58:18
Speaker 1: on the other side. And so whenever I come outside,
58:20
Speaker 1: I see him just sitting in his chair, just smoking
58:22
Speaker 1: his cigar and just laid back and chill and as
58:25
Speaker 1: ever he is just And again this thing that I love,
58:29
Speaker 1: what I've learned about Richard as an actor is just
58:35
Speaker 1: if he just has one line. You could tell that
58:37
Speaker 1: there's a huge story about that one line that he's
58:42
Speaker 1: given himself. And and I'll give you an example that
58:46
Speaker 1: And I haven't even told him this, but maybe I should.
58:49
Speaker 1: He was explaining tie, you know, and just the way
58:53
Speaker 1: that he used his body and his body what I
58:57
Speaker 1: mean by body is this as an actor, like his
58:58
Speaker 1: body language, you could tell that he was tasting this
59:02
Speaker 1: pie and he had history with this pie. When he
59:06
Speaker 1: just mentioned I, you know, I'm like I picked that
59:09
Speaker 1: up as an actor, I was like, wow. Like, of course,
59:13
Speaker 1: with the with the script, you always have a backstory
59:15
Speaker 1: and you always know what's going on within the script.
59:18
Speaker 1: But he goes even deeper and you can tell that
59:23
Speaker 1: there's experience in history with whatever is coming out of
59:25
Speaker 1: his mouth. And I think that's what makes it so grounding,
59:28
Speaker 1: and that's what makes him just such an incredible actor.
59:31
Speaker 1: But as a person, he's he's really chaft, you know,
59:37
Speaker 1: you know, I you know, you know, we we talking
59:39
Speaker 1: your I I want these folks to think I'm talking
59:41
Speaker 1: in town, up your time. But till you know, you know,
59:45
Speaker 1: as I said, you know, we can talk about the
59:47
Speaker 1: vitamin company. We'll talked about that next time, and I
59:49
Speaker 1: want to get that out. Let me just get the
59:51
Speaker 1: vitamin out. So anyway, so I have a supplement line
59:54
Speaker 1: called Answer, right, I can do this very quickly. So again,
1:00:00
Speaker 1: everything that I do is because I want to inspire
1:00:02
Speaker 1: and I inspired. What what inspired me and motivated me
1:00:06
Speaker 1: to come out with this line. Number one was my
1:00:08
Speaker 1: personal health history with indometrios is. I already touched on
1:00:11
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Speaker 1: will be able to generate money from many causes and
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Speaker 1: people who are need but we'll be able to have
1:17:57
Speaker 1: those ongoing conversations that are needed in society today in
1:18:01
Speaker 1: order to help take strikes to are making the world
1:18:03
Speaker 1: a better place. Now, I know you went to Ale
1:18:05
Speaker 1: has a private college, a private university, correct, I think
1:18:11
Speaker 1: it's considered a private institution. Now, Bachelor of Arts and Journalism.
1:18:16
Speaker 1: So when I when I hear the word journalism here
1:18:20
Speaker 1: very probing mind, I hear it in your voice, a
1:18:23
Speaker 1: person who wants to get answers. I here in your
1:18:26
Speaker 1: when you when you communicate and you're very analytical. What
1:18:30
Speaker 1: drove you to journalism in college and get that degree
1:18:32
Speaker 1: in journalism? I actually started off in the business school.
1:18:37
Speaker 1: My brother has a has a business management degree graduated
1:18:40
Speaker 1: honors from Ghocian College, Indiana. And my mom was really
1:18:43
Speaker 1: big on you know, certain types of majors that can
1:18:47
Speaker 1: produce certain types of jobs. You don't want me to
1:18:49
Speaker 1: be under the stereotype of professional athletes with majors and
1:18:52
Speaker 1: journalism takes the easy day out, per se, especially when
1:18:55
Speaker 1: you come from an institution like LEHU. So I don
1:18:58
Speaker 1: know a few weeks in you exactly, so a few
1:19:01
Speaker 1: weeks and I basically realized that I wasn't a big
1:19:04
Speaker 1: fan of the equations. I wasn't a big fan of
1:19:06
Speaker 1: sitting at the death for the rest of my life.
1:19:07
Speaker 1: That I wanted to be more interactive and have conversation.
1:19:11
Speaker 1: So a long story short, I told her I wanted
1:19:14
Speaker 1: to switch my major. She asked me what I was
1:19:16
Speaker 1: going to switch to. I said, journalism. She proceeded to
1:19:19
Speaker 1: ask what are you gonna do with the journalism degree
1:19:21
Speaker 1: from a university like Lehi, And I said, understand why
1:19:24
Speaker 1: you know about the economics? About the economics now exactly?
1:19:29
Speaker 1: She's thinking, My sons are going through a Prestigiou school.
1:19:32
Speaker 1: He's going to be a business manager of something of
1:19:34
Speaker 1: some sort, a manager in in major in business management.
1:19:37
Speaker 1: So I told her that my plan is to first
1:19:44
Speaker 1: figure out how to portray myself and my words in
1:19:46
Speaker 1: a certain manner in which people can understand it. In
1:19:48
Speaker 1: the second I wouldn't be able to tell stories, not
1:19:50
Speaker 1: just my stories, but the stories of others. And I
1:19:53
Speaker 1: told her this will, this will help me really truly
1:19:55
Speaker 1: understand people understand my words and say what I mean
1:19:58
Speaker 1: to mean what I say. So she made me right
1:20:00
Speaker 1: or something, and she said if it was good enough,
1:20:01
Speaker 1: she would allow me to switch my major. Long story short,
1:20:05
Speaker 1: it was good enough. I was able to switch my
1:20:07
Speaker 1: major major in journalism. I minded to mass communication and sociology.
1:20:11
Speaker 1: And now I have a great way with my words.
1:20:13
Speaker 1: I know how to articulate in the manner in which
1:20:15
Speaker 1: it is appropriate for all sides of the fence. I
1:20:18
Speaker 1: can talk in the barbershop, I can talk in Wall Street,
1:20:21
Speaker 1: and I can talk with the homies. So I felt
1:20:23
Speaker 1: like it was the best of both worlds, and it
1:20:26
Speaker 1: still allowed me to kind of pursue my passion because
1:20:29
Speaker 1: I knew I wasn't built for that life, although I
1:20:30
Speaker 1: can thrive in in that type of environment. I felt
1:20:34
Speaker 1: like I enjoyed writing thirty page papers as opposed to
1:20:36
Speaker 1: studying for equations and camps, and that that's kind of
1:20:39
Speaker 1: where you know, I felt on that tree. Well, I
1:20:41
Speaker 1: respect that my my degree is in mathematics. You know,
1:20:44
Speaker 1: I graduated with great in mathematics, and uh, but I
1:20:46
Speaker 1: didn't start out in mathematics. I started out in civil
1:20:49
Speaker 1: engineer and then I bounced around until I found myself.
1:20:52
Speaker 1: And I commend you at a young age, you was
1:20:54
Speaker 1: able to look in the mirror and say that's not
1:20:56
Speaker 1: what I want to be, that's not what I feel
1:20:58
Speaker 1: a passion for and now. But when I hear you talk,
1:21:02
Speaker 1: c J, I hear a very worldly voice. What are
1:21:05
Speaker 1: the platforms are you using to just you know, just
1:21:08
Speaker 1: just express your personality, express your point of view and
1:21:11
Speaker 1: share it you in the podcast or you have a
1:21:13
Speaker 1: radio shows? What are you doing beside social media? I've
1:21:17
Speaker 1: done all those things. I started off my my collegiate
1:21:20
Speaker 1: career working for Lee High Sports intern for Lee High
1:21:23
Speaker 1: Sports and basically covered all games, all sports and activities.
1:21:28
Speaker 1: I wrote for the school newspaper, the Brown and White,
1:21:31
Speaker 1: and I was an executive editor of the Brown and White,
1:21:32
Speaker 1: the school newspaper. And then once I was drifting to
1:21:35
Speaker 1: the NBA, I did a daily diary with Series X
1:21:38
Speaker 1: some Radio for a while. So I basically have my
1:21:39
Speaker 1: own radio show and transitioned that into working for I
1:21:43
Speaker 1: Heart Radio and did that for two years, and also
1:21:45
Speaker 1: hosted UH Jimmy one on seven five, Portland's number one
1:21:48
Speaker 1: station for hip hop and throwback. So you did that,
1:21:51
Speaker 1: you did that? I did that. I put together playlist,
1:21:54
Speaker 1: I interviewed UH different artists, and I turned that into
1:22:00
Speaker 1: a podcast. Right. I created the Pull Up podcast with
1:22:03
Speaker 1: George Schulton. We basically did a hundred and seven episodes
1:22:08
Speaker 1: and that was a two year agreement that's now up
1:22:10
Speaker 1: and um in negotiations for extending my podcast for another
1:22:14
Speaker 1: two years where we talk about life, sports, current events, wine,
1:22:20
Speaker 1: TV shows, books and so much more. So. I see, uh,
1:22:24
Speaker 1: am I talking to a young producer here, a young
1:22:27
Speaker 1: television producer, young documentary And what am I? What am
1:22:31
Speaker 1: I talking to? C j V? Because Man, you're special, dude.
1:22:34
Speaker 1: I I just throw that compliment out there because it's
1:22:38
Speaker 1: something that you own, that you wear, that you talk about,
1:22:41
Speaker 1: that you discussed. Just give us some insight a little
1:22:44
Speaker 1: bit about you. Or wasn't your mom that that that
1:22:47
Speaker 1: that that that foster this this curiosity and this this
1:22:51
Speaker 1: this ability to see things with a third eye. Talk
1:22:54
Speaker 1: to me about that. Yeah. I was just always talked
1:23:00
Speaker 1: to take advantage of your situation, UM, use the game
1:23:02
Speaker 1: and let the game use you. And I think my
1:23:04
Speaker 1: mother she has still that in me at an early age,
1:23:07
Speaker 1: basically letting you know that's the society isn't ever going
1:23:09
Speaker 1: to be fair to you. You got to make your
1:23:11
Speaker 1: own path and create your own way and you have
1:23:13
Speaker 1: to do it, but by using all your resources, um
1:23:16
Speaker 1: not just basketball, but use your education, use everything around
1:23:20
Speaker 1: you in order to to really take advantage of your situation.
1:23:24
Speaker 1: And if you want to be successful, it's going to
1:23:26
Speaker 1: come from understanding the principles that she taught me, Understanding
1:23:29
Speaker 1: the principles that come from the Bible, Understanding understanding the
1:23:32
Speaker 1: importance of you know, two eyes, two years, one mouth,
1:23:37
Speaker 1: and as the youngest youngest sibling, I learned a lot
1:23:39
Speaker 1: from my older brother who's a professional athlete. He has
1:23:42
Speaker 1: played abroad for over eleven years and is a business
1:23:45
Speaker 1: management major. Who's you know, I've idolized him since I
1:23:48
Speaker 1: was a kid. I've watched my mom work two jobs.
1:23:51
Speaker 1: I've watched my mom run our own insurance business, work
1:23:53
Speaker 1: for the state tax department for fifteen years, working in
1:23:56
Speaker 1: total thirty two years, and I was in a position
1:23:58
Speaker 1: to allow her to retire. I watched my dad working
1:24:01
Speaker 1: in steel mill for thirty years, hundred and fifteen hundred
1:24:04
Speaker 1: and thirty degrees in some of those cranes, and you know,
1:24:07
Speaker 1: doing what he has to do to provide for his
1:24:09
Speaker 1: family because his father died at an early age. So
1:24:12
Speaker 1: I watched all that growing up understanding that I wanted
1:24:14
Speaker 1: a better life for everybody in that In order for
1:24:16
Speaker 1: that to happen, I had to take advantage of my
1:24:19
Speaker 1: situation while also utilizing my skills, not just um talking,
1:24:24
Speaker 1: not just listening, but performance. You know, you have a
1:24:27
Speaker 1: certain skill, certain athletic ability, you take advantage of it,
1:24:30
Speaker 1: but you use that athleticism to empower people, use that
1:24:34
Speaker 1: to reach new networks, and also use that to get
1:24:36
Speaker 1: an education. So I was able to kind of parlay
1:24:39
Speaker 1: that into where I am now. And that's just the
1:24:41
Speaker 1: credit to my messurrounding with my mother, my father, my brother,
1:24:44
Speaker 1: and um. Without them, there is no good version to
1:24:47
Speaker 1: me now. In sixteen, you opened the c. J. McCullen
1:24:50
Speaker 1: Dream Center. Tell us about that. That's one of the
1:24:54
Speaker 1: things I'm most proud of in my career, being able
1:24:57
Speaker 1: to party with the Boys and Girls Club organization that
1:25:00
Speaker 1: was so instrumental in my development as a youngster. You know,
1:25:04
Speaker 1: they played a role in providing me with a safe space.
1:25:06
Speaker 1: I wanted to do the same thing for the kids
1:25:09
Speaker 1: um here in Oregon, basically talking to them, communicating with
1:25:12
Speaker 1: them and getting a better understanding of some of the
1:25:14
Speaker 1: things they're lacking and some of the resources they may
1:25:16
Speaker 1: need and being able to provide that. We started with
1:25:19
Speaker 1: culturally relevant books because there's so many kids who oftentimes
1:25:24
Speaker 1: are forced to read books um that are written by
1:25:26
Speaker 1: people that don't look like them and that are about
1:25:29
Speaker 1: things things and people that don't come from places like them.
1:25:32
Speaker 1: So we wanted to first kind of fix that and
1:25:34
Speaker 1: then provide them with computers, provide them with certain technology,
1:25:41
Speaker 1: different things that they may not not only be exposed to,
1:25:44
Speaker 1: and while providing them with the space to attend and
1:25:47
Speaker 1: be a part of pre and post school. That was
1:25:50
Speaker 1: that was really really big for us, and I think
1:25:52
Speaker 1: what I'm most proud of that we've been able to
1:25:55
Speaker 1: open up two of them so far. One of them
1:25:56
Speaker 1: is focused more sole on journalism. So they're able to uh,
1:26:00
Speaker 1: they're able to print things, They're able to do green screen,
1:26:03
Speaker 1: they're able to produce their own podcast, they able to
1:26:05
Speaker 1: produce their own music, They're able to produce their own
1:26:07
Speaker 1: stories while conducting interviews uh in what's similar to what
1:26:12
Speaker 1: you would see at a weather station or news stations.
1:26:16
Speaker 1: I'm extremely proud of that, and I'd say that I
1:26:19
Speaker 1: think on the on the cake is that we've we've
1:26:21
Speaker 1: been able to collaborate collaborate with a couple of coding
1:26:23
Speaker 1: companies to where the kids are able to receive free coding.
1:26:26
Speaker 1: They go through uh, they go through the year program,
1:26:30
Speaker 1: and once they finish, I think to two to five
1:26:33
Speaker 1: students are in position to receive a job that pays
1:26:36
Speaker 1: up to seventy a year with no degree. So I
1:26:38
Speaker 1: think that's something that I'm extremely proud of because it
1:26:41
Speaker 1: teaches kids, you know, from inner cities, kids from from
1:26:44
Speaker 1: under poverished areas and underserved community areas, how to code,
1:26:48
Speaker 1: and then it provides them with an opportunity to to
1:26:50
Speaker 1: make a living for not themselves with their families. Wow,
1:26:54
Speaker 1: that's les. Let's let's make a transition to the soul.
1:26:58
Speaker 1: Okay now and bio Mr c J. They said you
1:27:02
Speaker 1: are a long time why connoisseurce. I'm just gonna let
1:27:06
Speaker 1: you know I'm from the hood. Okay. If somebody said
1:27:09
Speaker 1: there was a long time wine connoisseurate, it was called
1:27:11
Speaker 1: a wine oh back in the day. I'm just gonna
1:27:13
Speaker 1: let you know that. I'm sure you're not a wine Oh,
1:27:16
Speaker 1: so tell us what a wine connot sue is. I mean,
1:27:22
Speaker 1: they used that line that a still stretch for me,
1:27:24
Speaker 1: because you know me, I grew up in the hood
1:27:26
Speaker 1: to the strong stuff and still drink the strong stuff
1:27:31
Speaker 1: just for the record, just to set the record straight.
1:27:34
Speaker 1: But I've involved, my palate has evolved, and i started
1:27:38
Speaker 1: drinking wine about eight years ago, seven years ago, and
1:27:41
Speaker 1: I've continued to take roadways to learn more about the grape,
1:27:45
Speaker 1: to learn more about what organ has to offer, and
1:27:47
Speaker 1: learn more about what the world has to offer. So
1:27:49
Speaker 1: I'm thankful to have a partnership with Alisign and be
1:27:52
Speaker 1: able to bring McCollum Harry's ninety one to life, which
1:27:55
Speaker 1: is a two thousand eighteen pinot in the war that
1:27:58
Speaker 1: was harvested um in Oregon and the will Emma Valley
1:28:02
Speaker 1: more specifically of the Shahala Mountains. Uh. It's it's a
1:28:04
Speaker 1: great pino. And I'm just thankful. I've been able to
1:28:07
Speaker 1: learn so much about so many things that I wasn't
1:28:09
Speaker 1: exposed to as a child. I've been able to diversify,
1:28:12
Speaker 1: I've been able to educate myself and I really really
1:28:16
Speaker 1: established so many things outside of basketball that I'm extremely
1:28:20
Speaker 1: proud of for my legacy. And but you know that's
1:28:24
Speaker 1: a short story there about what you just did. But
1:28:26
Speaker 1: just let's let's low down a little bit. Okay, how
1:28:30
Speaker 1: did you went from enjoying something, tasting it and then
1:28:33
Speaker 1: somebody tapping you on the shoulder and say, hey, you
1:28:36
Speaker 1: can you can not only enjoy what you drink, but
1:28:39
Speaker 1: you can make this as a business. How did that happen? Besides,
1:28:42
Speaker 1: you've been a famous basketball player. I'm sure that's helped
1:28:45
Speaker 1: out a lot. But I'm sure, like you said, you're
1:28:47
Speaker 1: trying to learn the ins and out. Welcome through that
1:28:49
Speaker 1: early stage of of somebody telling you about it and
1:28:54
Speaker 1: then you believe in it had a credible lane of
1:28:56
Speaker 1: opportunity for you. Yeah, I'm I'm fortunate to be surrounded
1:29:02
Speaker 1: by some great people, um in general, from my agency
1:29:06
Speaker 1: to my family to my fiance. We have a great
1:29:10
Speaker 1: circle of people who do think the right way, who
1:29:13
Speaker 1: are like minded, but who are also in the business
1:29:16
Speaker 1: of figuring out how to educate, how to how to
1:29:19
Speaker 1: process what you're which are being educated, and how to
1:29:22
Speaker 1: really turn that into a profitable business. So, based on
1:29:26
Speaker 1: you know, certain conversations that we had, we figured out
1:29:28
Speaker 1: what I wanted to accomplish, how to go about accomplishing it.
1:29:31
Speaker 1: Accomplishing and who I should you know, potentially go into
1:29:35
Speaker 1: business with. And we found the great partnership with Adam
1:29:38
Speaker 1: Simon and their biggest thing is education sustainability, and those
1:29:43
Speaker 1: are two key things that I focused my life on.
1:29:47
Speaker 1: I like to educate and I believe in collaborative learning
1:29:51
Speaker 1: experiences in which we're making the world a better place.
1:29:54
Speaker 1: And based on their practices, based on what I was
1:29:56
Speaker 1: told and what I've been able to see so far,
1:29:58
Speaker 1: I've been able to learn more about wine, to taste
1:30:00
Speaker 1: certain wines I never would have been exposed to, to
1:30:03
Speaker 1: potentially produce my own wine, to be a part of
1:30:05
Speaker 1: the entire process with the winemaker named Gina, who has
1:30:08
Speaker 1: been exceptional and educating me and bringing some of the
1:30:12
Speaker 1: things that I wanted to like actually comes from Excel
1:30:14
Speaker 1: has has done a tremendous job of helping lift this
1:30:17
Speaker 1: wine business off the ground. From me helping me, helping
1:30:21
Speaker 1: me in terms of selecting um a PR team, helping
1:30:25
Speaker 1: me in terms of selecting a wine company, helping me
1:30:28
Speaker 1: in terms of selecting the proper designers to do the bottle,
1:30:31
Speaker 1: of the proper designers to do the label, and the
1:30:33
Speaker 1: proper designers to help me come with the name in general.
1:30:36
Speaker 1: So there was a lot that really went into this
1:30:39
Speaker 1: process from start to finish, from from the original taste
1:30:43
Speaker 1: a year and a half ago. So now it's crazy
1:30:45
Speaker 1: how much I've been able to learn, not only about wine,
1:30:48
Speaker 1: but about myself and about Pinot Nor in general. Now
1:30:52
Speaker 1: former teammates really get help was involved as well. Evan Turner,
1:30:56
Speaker 1: I believe uh was was instrumental. Et is my guy?
1:31:02
Speaker 1: Yeah he's in Atlanta, right, he's it was? He was
1:31:05
Speaker 1: with the Hawks. Nice, where is here now? Yeah? Yeah,
1:31:07
Speaker 1: he was with the Hawks and I think he got
1:31:08
Speaker 1: bought out and is now currently a free agent. But um,
1:31:13
Speaker 1: I actually my fiance introduced me to wine. In college,
1:31:16
Speaker 1: I got drafted by the Portland Trailblazers. The first pe
1:31:19
Speaker 1: don't to our evertation was Walter Scott, which is a
1:31:22
Speaker 1: volcanic soil and it was from Bryant Creek, my current
1:31:26
Speaker 1: peno now that I released its volcanic soil and one
1:31:29
Speaker 1: of the grapes that we chose from c J. Your
1:31:32
Speaker 1: whole personality has changed since we started talking about wine.
1:31:36
Speaker 1: You know that, right you you sitting on edge of
1:31:39
Speaker 1: your chair right now, you're probably sitting up straight. That
1:31:42
Speaker 1: means you're passionate about it, You're excited about it. Right,
1:31:46
Speaker 1: I'm extremely excited. And it's crazy because one of the
1:31:50
Speaker 1: I went to a winery with my when we first
1:31:52
Speaker 1: got out here, and then you fast forward and Evan
1:31:54
Speaker 1: Turner and I went to a winery, and that's when
1:31:56
Speaker 1: we really dove deep into the learning phase of the barrels,
1:32:01
Speaker 1: the grapes, How long should it fermented, how much alcohol
1:32:05
Speaker 1: should go into it production? Did they stop the gripes?
1:32:09
Speaker 1: How do they be stem what's the rotation like on
1:32:11
Speaker 1: a bubbly versus a red? How do you how do
1:32:15
Speaker 1: you produce a red? How do you produce the bubbly?
1:32:17
Speaker 1: Should your grapes be south southeastern facing or southwestern facing
1:32:21
Speaker 1: towards the sun? And we went through like this whole thing,
1:32:25
Speaker 1: and that's when I really wanted to continue to figure
1:32:28
Speaker 1: out ways to learn more about it to the point
1:32:30
Speaker 1: where I educate myself. I read articles, I watched Netflix
1:32:34
Speaker 1: documentaries on psalms, and I try to do blind tastings
1:32:37
Speaker 1: and just explore as much as I can. And I'm
1:32:40
Speaker 1: thankful and blessed to be in a position where I
1:32:42
Speaker 1: can venture out and travel and experience wine in so
1:32:45
Speaker 1: many different regions. I'm really I'm really thankful for that.
1:32:49
Speaker 1: Now with that being said, now let's talk about the
1:32:51
Speaker 1: name is heritage namely one right that had some significant rights. Yes,
1:32:56
Speaker 1: it's McCullum Harris ninety one, So I put my name
1:32:58
Speaker 1: on it because legacy is huge to me. I want
1:33:01
Speaker 1: my kids to really understand that what we've been able
1:33:03
Speaker 1: to accomplish and how powerful the mind is. Um. Heritage
1:33:08
Speaker 1: is huge, understanding where you come from, what you come
1:33:10
Speaker 1: from and in your history. And I also grew up
1:33:13
Speaker 1: on heritage, abe, so that that kind of took me,
1:33:15
Speaker 1: took me back to my childhood. The ninety one is
1:33:18
Speaker 1: my birth year. And the flower that's on the bottle
1:33:21
Speaker 1: with my fiance's favorite uh flower, kind of put everything
1:33:25
Speaker 1: together in one smooth you smooth heritage flower. You're romantic,
1:33:32
Speaker 1: but man, romantic. Now you said Netflix. Now did you
1:33:36
Speaker 1: see the movie Uncorked on Netflix? I haven't. Oh, come on,
1:33:41
Speaker 1: c J, come on, man, you gotta see that. But
1:33:43
Speaker 1: you will love that movie. Man, I saw it twice.
1:33:46
Speaker 1: It's outstanding. Man, you got to see. Uncork Is Buddy
1:33:50
Speaker 1: is written and directed, executive produced by my man practice Penny,
1:33:55
Speaker 1: who executive produces Insecure on HBO. Uncork You gotta watch it. Man,
1:34:00
Speaker 1: it's outstanding. If if you're naseuit, if you're ye connoisseur,
1:34:06
Speaker 1: you gotta watch this funny. It's a father's son's story,
1:34:11
Speaker 1: is a family story. Man is passionate. It's entertaining. Uh.
1:34:15
Speaker 1: But because you are a wine connoisseur, the language you
1:34:19
Speaker 1: are appreciated. It really is a great movie. It's called Uncorked.
1:34:22
Speaker 1: It's on Netflix. You gotta watch it. Okay, so no more,
1:34:26
Speaker 1: I'm done. Men now here. Here's my whole thing. My wife,
1:34:29
Speaker 1: you know, she's a big wine connai seuer herself. You know,
1:34:33
Speaker 1: I actually didn't throw away all her corks one day.
1:34:35
Speaker 1: I didn't realize how much, how much passion, and how
1:34:38
Speaker 1: much love she had for those little corks she kept
1:34:40
Speaker 1: in his little boot and I and our kitchen in
1:34:43
Speaker 1: our Houston home. One day, I just came in, just
1:34:45
Speaker 1: got tired of looking at the corks, and I thought
1:34:47
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making Conversation. The founder of new
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Speaker 1: Leaf number one Jacquis Jennings. Hey, guys, how you doing.
1:41:19
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Yes, thank you so much for
1:41:22
Speaker 1: having me on the show. So you're Georgia bred, Georgia
1:41:24
Speaker 1: Brandon born right, Georgia Brandon born. I am from Atlanta,
1:41:28
Speaker 1: born in Georgia, Baptist. Yes, I love it. I love it. Now.
1:41:33
Speaker 1: You served some time in the army. That's why we
1:41:35
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1:41:38
Speaker 1: younger my oldest. But I have two of my youngest
1:41:41
Speaker 1: brother he served in the army, and I have my
1:41:44
Speaker 1: nephew has a very popular barbecue stand called Big six Domino.
1:41:48
Speaker 1: He served time in the army, and so I'm a
1:41:51
Speaker 1: fan of the military. I had a big air National
1:41:53
Speaker 1: Guard contract when I hand all the recruitment and retention
1:41:56
Speaker 1: for the National Guards. So I like to believe that
1:41:59
Speaker 1: I'm an advocate for the army. Talk about your military
1:42:02
Speaker 1: experience and how important it was it was to you
1:42:05
Speaker 1: at that time, and how I use what you learned
1:42:07
Speaker 1: from it into your everyday life today. Wow. M I
1:42:13
Speaker 1: joined the military shot after high school. I tried the
1:42:17
Speaker 1: college thing, but I'm one of those individuals that think
1:42:20
Speaker 1: outside the box. So I'm like I needed to figure
1:42:23
Speaker 1: out life because I had moments where I was in
1:42:26
Speaker 1: school and it was teaching things that was not applying
1:42:30
Speaker 1: to my actual realistic life at that moment. And so
1:42:34
Speaker 1: I decided that I wanted to take the route, as
1:42:37
Speaker 1: you know, through the military, just to see the world,
1:42:41
Speaker 1: just to experience different things. Because when you come from
1:42:43
Speaker 1: a background where it's not properly set up for you,
1:42:47
Speaker 1: you have to figure things out. You can't always do
1:42:50
Speaker 1: the blame game, right. And so I decided to go
1:42:53
Speaker 1: into the military idea four years active duty, and that
1:42:57
Speaker 1: was a journey. I've seen so many things. Um, what
1:43:00
Speaker 1: what did you what did you train at in the army?
1:43:02
Speaker 1: What about what part you from Atlanta, Georgia? Where did
1:43:05
Speaker 1: you go to train? South Carolina? And you were stationed
1:43:09
Speaker 1: I was for I was stationed at Fort Louis, which
1:43:12
Speaker 1: is in Seattle, right right, So you went from the South,
1:43:16
Speaker 1: trained in South Carolina and next thing you know, you
1:43:19
Speaker 1: in Seattle, Washington, which is really a different part of
1:43:23
Speaker 1: the country. Range a lot beautiful part of the country,
1:43:27
Speaker 1: A lot of woods up there, kind of like the Georgia.
1:43:29
Speaker 1: Georgia has a lot of woods down here. Tell us
1:43:31
Speaker 1: about that that that that experience of being in a
1:43:34
Speaker 1: That's what I love about travel. Travel exposed us to
1:43:37
Speaker 1: a lot of different things, different different cultures, different eating
1:43:40
Speaker 1: habits and all that tell us about that journey, you know,
1:43:43
Speaker 1: going to at that moment, I had never been anywhere,
1:43:47
Speaker 1: to be honest put yourself. It was a It was
1:43:49
Speaker 1: a shocker to me because going to Seattle's completely different
1:43:53
Speaker 1: from the South one. Nothing is the same. The restaurants
1:43:56
Speaker 1: is different, the people there, the culture is different, the
1:43:59
Speaker 1: walk sup life, and the mentality is different. So I
1:44:02
Speaker 1: had to change as I was there because I was
1:44:06
Speaker 1: so used to my way. I was so used to
1:44:08
Speaker 1: what was introduced to me that I had to learn
1:44:12
Speaker 1: new things. I had to you know, have a different
1:44:15
Speaker 1: taste palade because you know, the food was different. Um,
1:44:18
Speaker 1: the ways that they do things was quite different. And
1:44:21
Speaker 1: as I was going through my journey in the military,
1:44:24
Speaker 1: I was tested so many and so many times because
1:44:27
Speaker 1: it's different. You go through things that you can't speak on. Um,
1:44:31
Speaker 1: you experience things is gonna change you forever. And the
1:44:35
Speaker 1: one thing that I truly appreciate from the military was
1:44:38
Speaker 1: the genuine friendships I was able to build. It wasn't
1:44:42
Speaker 1: a color. It was just humans that just build a
1:44:46
Speaker 1: connection and that was considered your family, your batta buddies,
1:44:50
Speaker 1: and so I went through so many things. But I
1:44:52
Speaker 1: also lost a lot of friends too, you know, and
1:44:56
Speaker 1: so it puts you in a different um perspective of life.
1:45:00
Speaker 1: And it also teaches you how to rise above, grow
1:45:04
Speaker 1: up and let things go. So you know how a
1:45:08
Speaker 1: normal people hold brudget. Once you go through the military,
1:45:11
Speaker 1: you learn how to let that stuff go because people
1:45:14
Speaker 1: lives are not promised. You're not promised to see somebody
1:45:17
Speaker 1: the next day. So you have to let things go
1:45:21
Speaker 1: very fast because you want to enjoy those moments that
1:45:24
Speaker 1: you have, in those experiences that you have with people,
1:45:28
Speaker 1: because life is not just pretty. You know. I understand
1:45:31
Speaker 1: that sometimes social media and TV will put on these
1:45:35
Speaker 1: different perspectives as if this is how life is. That's
1:45:38
Speaker 1: completely not true. You know, that's entertainment. It's a difference
1:45:42
Speaker 1: between entertainment and reality. Right I was going through the journey,
1:45:47
Speaker 1: and while I was in the military, I went through
1:45:50
Speaker 1: a really dark moment you know. There. Yes, it was
1:45:56
Speaker 1: a lot going on. It was you know, very controversial.
1:46:00
Speaker 1: It's the same things that happened instide of the real
1:46:04
Speaker 1: world happens in the military, whether it's race, whether it's
1:46:06
Speaker 1: anything that you go through a lot of things inside
1:46:09
Speaker 1: the military that it's not truly spoken, but it truly
1:46:13
Speaker 1: will develop you mentally, and it would give you a
1:46:17
Speaker 1: sense of dedication, hard work, and a sense of respect
1:46:21
Speaker 1: for a lot of different cultures. Right. But as I
1:46:23
Speaker 1: was going through the journey, I went through a dark
1:46:26
Speaker 1: moment of depression because here I am, um, a young female,
1:46:30
Speaker 1: you know, just turning twenty one. I moved away. I
1:46:33
Speaker 1: don't have no friends, no family, nothing, and I'm in
1:46:36
Speaker 1: a whole another on the other side of the world,
1:46:38
Speaker 1: and I'm going through things by myself. And it got
1:46:41
Speaker 1: to a point where I couldn't pick up the phone
1:46:43
Speaker 1: and call my mama, or call my brothers or tell
1:46:46
Speaker 1: them what was going on, because if I did, I
1:46:49
Speaker 1: would have stressed them out. And they couldn't save me.
1:46:51
Speaker 1: They couldn't come pick me up, They couldn't remove me
1:46:55
Speaker 1: from my situation. So I had to go through it.
1:46:57
Speaker 1: And um, I remember going through those moments of depression.
1:47:02
Speaker 1: And let me tell you this, I didn't know what
1:47:04
Speaker 1: depression was. I heard about it, I read about it,
1:47:07
Speaker 1: but it was like something that you read about, but
1:47:09
Speaker 1: until you go through, and you don't understand it, because
1:47:13
Speaker 1: the fight is getting out of depression. Seek it takes
1:47:17
Speaker 1: you a minute to think into depression because half the
1:47:20
Speaker 1: time you don't even realize you depressed. You're going through
1:47:22
Speaker 1: things and you think that's just a part of life.
1:47:24
Speaker 1: But once you get in it and you recognize it,
1:47:27
Speaker 1: it's a battle just trying to get yourself out of it.
1:47:30
Speaker 1: And I remember that moment that I was able to
1:47:33
Speaker 1: truly define what depression was and how I was able
1:47:37
Speaker 1: to get out of it. I remember one day it
1:47:40
Speaker 1: had got to the point where I would just get
1:47:42
Speaker 1: up and go to work and then sleep. All I
1:47:45
Speaker 1: did was one thing I knew how to do, would
1:47:47
Speaker 1: go to work. But after that I would sleep my
1:47:49
Speaker 1: days away. And I woke up one day and I
1:47:53
Speaker 1: looked myself in the mirror and I said, you're even
1:47:57
Speaker 1: gonna kill yourself, or you're gonna push through. And when
1:48:01
Speaker 1: I fail. When I said kill myself, I'm not saying literally,
1:48:03
Speaker 1: I'm talking about mentally, because you have so much to offer,
1:48:09
Speaker 1: and sometimes we get caught up in our own illusions,
1:48:12
Speaker 1: our own thoughts that we start to create these different things,
1:48:15
Speaker 1: create these different methods, or we'll start thinking that people
1:48:19
Speaker 1: feel this way about its not knowing that they're going
1:48:21
Speaker 1: through their own things as well. So we'll start projecting strength,
1:48:25
Speaker 1: projecting different things that we're going through. And so I
1:48:29
Speaker 1: told myself, I have too much to offer. I'm an
1:48:31
Speaker 1: amazing individual. Look at all these people that are counting
1:48:34
Speaker 1: on you. Look at all these people that come to
1:48:36
Speaker 1: you for advice. You are somebody, You mean something to somebody.
1:48:40
Speaker 1: Now you gotta dig deep inside and start to have
1:48:43
Speaker 1: that value for yourself. And once I realized that, that's
1:48:47
Speaker 1: how I got out of it. And so that is
1:48:49
Speaker 1: how I got to the point of wanting to write
1:48:51
Speaker 1: a book called Life After Depression. Wow, when I when
1:48:56
Speaker 1: I hear you talk about depression, you know, I don't
1:49:00
Speaker 1: want this to be about time, you know, dark moments
1:49:04
Speaker 1: in your life, because your life is upbeat, your motivator,
1:49:08
Speaker 1: you you're you're willing to step and tell your sincere
1:49:12
Speaker 1: side of your story, which I think is important because
1:49:14
Speaker 1: a lot of people want to tell that story. They
1:49:16
Speaker 1: want to like being read everything's good, Everything's good, And
1:49:19
Speaker 1: because you gotta everything is not good. My life is
1:49:22
Speaker 1: not perfect, and so on this show I'm willing to
1:49:25
Speaker 1: tell expose my flaws, and my success does as well.
1:49:28
Speaker 1: And so that's why I wanted to talk about the military,
1:49:30
Speaker 1: because a lot of young people make these decisions to
1:49:33
Speaker 1: go into military. When I was doing the recruiting and
1:49:35
Speaker 1: retention for their national card, it was you know, I
1:49:38
Speaker 1: I remember having an opportunity when I came out of
1:49:40
Speaker 1: high school to get a scholarship to attend the m
1:49:43
Speaker 1: I t UM school. And when it came to you know, uh,
1:49:49
Speaker 1: the whole thing about uh serving your country and potentially
1:49:52
Speaker 1: losing your life and the service of your country, that
1:49:55
Speaker 1: that backed me back. And so because that's a that's
1:49:59
Speaker 1: a big decision to make that you're willing to, you know,
1:50:02
Speaker 1: expose yourself in a position the defense of your country
1:50:05
Speaker 1: to give up your life. Did you understand that when
1:50:10
Speaker 1: you were and you know, uh enrolling in a registering
1:50:15
Speaker 1: for the military, or it was just something you just
1:50:16
Speaker 1: wanted to do? Absolutely not um um. I was told
1:50:20
Speaker 1: a million dreams from um recruiter um. Because but you
1:50:25
Speaker 1: gotta understand now that I'm gonna do, I understand they
1:50:27
Speaker 1: had a job to do as well. They you know,
1:50:29
Speaker 1: it's a it's a reason why they're recruiting and they
1:50:31
Speaker 1: have to recruit a certain amount of people to keep
1:50:32
Speaker 1: that job or else they're back to active duty. So
1:50:36
Speaker 1: I was told so many things, Oh my god, you're
1:50:38
Speaker 1: gonna get to go to school, You're going to get
1:50:40
Speaker 1: to do this, You're gonna get to travel around the world.
1:50:43
Speaker 1: And if I could just give advice to anybody, let
1:50:46
Speaker 1: me tell you something. If someone decides to go into
1:50:48
Speaker 1: the military for the right reasons, I say, absolutely, go forward.
1:50:52
Speaker 1: I don't know about right now right now, but I'm
1:50:55
Speaker 1: just saying, you know, if you decide to do it,
1:50:58
Speaker 1: make sure you know what you're in yourself into. Make
1:51:01
Speaker 1: sure your core values go along with what you're trying
1:51:04
Speaker 1: to do. Because I went in just wanted to escape
1:51:07
Speaker 1: my life. I wanted to escape the streets, I wanted
1:51:10
Speaker 1: to escape things. I wanted to just you know, become
1:51:13
Speaker 1: a better person for my family. But I should have
1:51:16
Speaker 1: still dug deeper on the main reasons of what was
1:51:19
Speaker 1: gonna be my motivation when I got there, Because you
1:51:22
Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna be. Faith. When you dropped
1:51:24
Speaker 1: off and that bus stop and they tell you to
1:51:28
Speaker 1: get off that bus, that's when things get real. Life
1:51:31
Speaker 1: for you is completely different. So it was a journey
1:51:35
Speaker 1: from stage one to stage two to go in a
1:51:37
Speaker 1: different places, going to Virginia, having to go to sleeping quarters,
1:51:41
Speaker 1: having to share quarters with hundreds of people, having to
1:51:45
Speaker 1: have your personal space taken away from you. It's a
1:51:47
Speaker 1: mental journey that you have to go through and you
1:51:50
Speaker 1: have to be ready for it. Now, now you're back
1:51:53
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, you have a very successful vision. It's a
1:51:56
Speaker 1: C B D store. What exactly is a C B
1:52:00
Speaker 1: D store? What is that? So? CBD is called cannabinoids. Um,
1:52:06
Speaker 1: it is one of the top ingredients in the marijuana plan.
1:52:10
Speaker 1: So basically I am in the marijuana industry if you
1:52:14
Speaker 1: want to look at it from that perspective. UM, inside
1:52:17
Speaker 1: of my store, UM, we have products that does not
1:52:21
Speaker 1: have T A C products inside of it. But we're
1:52:24
Speaker 1: also going to be coming out with a line that
1:52:27
Speaker 1: has T C because we understand how certain individuals needed.
1:52:31
Speaker 1: CBD is cannabinoid and our endocannabinoid system has receptors for CBD.
1:52:38
Speaker 1: Which is crazy because why wasn't this always legal to us?
1:52:43
Speaker 1: Why did it take so long? It's the questions that
1:52:45
Speaker 1: so many people have because CBD has saved so many lives,
1:52:50
Speaker 1: whether it's a person who has anxiety, oppression, epilepsy, autism, diabetes,
1:52:55
Speaker 1: you know, pain. So it's just a revolution. It's amazing.
1:52:59
Speaker 1: It's one of the most amazing products that I have
1:53:02
Speaker 1: ever been introduced to. And how I got into the
1:53:04
Speaker 1: business was a unique journey from me. Okay, now you know,
1:53:08
Speaker 1: you just gonna it's gonna make that statement. You're just
1:53:10
Speaker 1: gonna stop talking. You know, you know how to talk.
1:53:13
Speaker 1: It was a new, unique, unique journey for me period
1:53:18
Speaker 1: had had. What happened was when I was starting to
1:53:24
Speaker 1: get out the military. Ben in Seattle, Um, there's nothing
1:53:27
Speaker 1: but dispensary. So marijuana is legal there. And so you know,
1:53:31
Speaker 1: I never been a part of a state where people
1:53:34
Speaker 1: smoked marijuana and still went to work on time. It
1:53:37
Speaker 1: did not change nothing. Everybody was around it. They had
1:53:41
Speaker 1: marijuana in hot saws, lotions, um, candy. It was everything,
1:53:46
Speaker 1: and people was function as if and the dispensary was
1:53:50
Speaker 1: a size and target. You know, it's just like walking in,
1:53:53
Speaker 1: getting what you need, leaving and going about your day.
1:53:56
Speaker 1: And so I started to you know, learn it and
1:53:59
Speaker 1: really frying out the mask behind it. And I remember
1:54:02
Speaker 1: one day my mom was in pain and she had
1:54:05
Speaker 1: went to the doctor. You know, they'd be giving out
1:54:06
Speaker 1: all these pain medicines. So I took the label. I
1:54:09
Speaker 1: gave her some pain cream and I took the label
1:54:11
Speaker 1: off and I said, oh, Mama, they gave me this,
1:54:13
Speaker 1: and I told her to try it. And it worked right.
1:54:17
Speaker 1: It was nothing but CBD, you know, And so I
1:54:20
Speaker 1: just had to let her know sometimes it takes for
1:54:23
Speaker 1: us to try something different. Just because a man tell
1:54:26
Speaker 1: you to take a field, don't mean you gotta take it.
1:54:28
Speaker 1: You gotta just step outside the box and start doing
1:54:31
Speaker 1: research on what you're in taking in your digestive system.
1:54:34
Speaker 1: And so, as I was going through it and I
1:54:36
Speaker 1: was learning the business, UM, I started working for this
1:54:39
Speaker 1: great UM corporate company, and I was doing so well
1:54:42
Speaker 1: in that corporate company, they moved me to another place,
1:54:46
Speaker 1: which back to the South, which where marijuana CBD was
1:54:49
Speaker 1: no longer legal. Now, as I was going through my
1:54:52
Speaker 1: journey UM, one day I went to the doctor, UM,
1:54:56
Speaker 1: the eye doctor, and I needed some new glasses because
1:54:59
Speaker 1: I was still using the glasses from the military. And
1:55:02
Speaker 1: the lady told me that the pressure in my eyes
1:55:06
Speaker 1: was so was so strong that it was still if
1:55:09
Speaker 1: I'm either on drugs or something is wrong. And I'm like, ma'am,
1:55:13
Speaker 1: I'll let you know if I did some weed or something,
1:55:15
Speaker 1: but I don't do drugs. You know, I don't do
1:55:16
Speaker 1: drug drugs. You know, that's just not what I do. Okay,
1:55:22
Speaker 1: you know, man, I don't do that, right, you do right.
1:55:30
Speaker 1: I ended up going to go get an m R.
1:55:33
Speaker 1: I and I later found out. I got a call
1:55:37
Speaker 1: one day. I was sitting at home. I got a
1:55:38
Speaker 1: call and the doctor was on the phone and they
1:55:40
Speaker 1: were sounding so stressed out that they had made me sure.
1:55:43
Speaker 1: That was like, you know, Ms Jennings, Um, we wanted
1:55:46
Speaker 1: to see if you have some time to talk. And
1:55:48
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's up? And it was like, we wanted
1:55:50
Speaker 1: to let you know that you we found that you
1:55:52
Speaker 1: had a propteritory gland tumor. The size is large and
1:55:56
Speaker 1: we might have to do brain surgery. Man, I'm young.
1:55:59
Speaker 1: My art dropped, you know. I remember, everybody's just in
1:56:03
Speaker 1: a liberal I'm crying. I'm like, I just the feeling
1:56:06
Speaker 1: just came back. I was crying. I was like, you
1:56:08
Speaker 1: know what, I'm just going to take all my money
1:56:10
Speaker 1: go to after travel. You know, my life is over
1:56:15
Speaker 1: First of all, you just gonna take all your money
1:56:17
Speaker 1: go to Africa. That's that's what got me laughing. All
1:56:20
Speaker 1: of you got the grippa, you gotta wife, you gotta
1:56:24
Speaker 1: Mexican riviera. I was gonna take all my money go
1:56:26
Speaker 1: to Africa, Risha, That's what I'm going. That's exactly what
1:56:30
Speaker 1: I was thinking. And I remember my mom told me.
1:56:33
Speaker 1: She said, girl, she said you were stronger than that.
1:56:36
Speaker 1: She said, first of all, them doctors don't have the
1:56:38
Speaker 1: last day, so when you need to look more into
1:56:40
Speaker 1: your situation. And so at that moment, at that moment
1:56:45
Speaker 1: that they told me that, I started to make myself sick.
1:56:50
Speaker 1: Strength started to build up, my my thoughts started to change,
1:56:54
Speaker 1: and once again the whole little circle roller coaster was
1:56:57
Speaker 1: there until I say, you know what, I'm not gonna
1:56:59
Speaker 1: do this. I'm not gonna do this to myself. So
1:57:02
Speaker 1: I started to talk to the doctors, do more research,
1:57:06
Speaker 1: and then to find out that the doctor that called
1:57:08
Speaker 1: me with the information was a doctor that was in training.
1:57:12
Speaker 1: First of all, so that was the wrong That was
1:57:15
Speaker 1: the wrong procedure there to have someone in training to
1:57:18
Speaker 1: call me and deliver some news like that. And so
1:57:21
Speaker 1: as the journey went. I mean, I can't even account
1:57:24
Speaker 1: how many m R I s I didn't have, but
1:57:25
Speaker 1: to find out, by the grace of God, my tumor
1:57:28
Speaker 1: was benign, so answer free. Um. As time went by,
1:57:32
Speaker 1: I start doing my my own holistic ways CBD, different
1:57:36
Speaker 1: things like that, and I went back the tumor was
1:57:38
Speaker 1: not growing. There was like, well, miss Jennings, you you're fine.
1:57:42
Speaker 1: We're just gonna keep monitoring. And at that moment I
1:57:45
Speaker 1: started to notice that you are the creator. You create
1:57:50
Speaker 1: those thoughts and you create what mindset you're going to
1:57:53
Speaker 1: be in. When the doctor tell you bad news, they
1:57:56
Speaker 1: do not have the last say though. So at that moment,
1:58:00
Speaker 1: that's when I'm like, wow, CBD came back to me again.
1:58:04
Speaker 1: Remember I'm like, okay, I left it. I went to
1:58:08
Speaker 1: started the whole new thing because I couldn't do that dispensary.
1:58:11
Speaker 1: I'm in a state where it's not legal. Now the
1:58:13
Speaker 1: CBDs part comes back to me. And then as time
1:58:16
Speaker 1: went by, two thousand eighteen came the Farm Bill path.
1:58:19
Speaker 1: Now CBD is legal in Georgia. We can sell up
1:58:22
Speaker 1: to three percent t a SATs. So as I, you know,
1:58:26
Speaker 1: was doing well when I was transferring, you know, going
1:58:29
Speaker 1: to different places. My last location where I got transferred
1:58:33
Speaker 1: from my job was Atlanta, my hometown, and I remember
1:58:38
Speaker 1: having all these employees. I had did very well for myself,
1:58:41
Speaker 1: and I had so many people that would come to
1:58:44
Speaker 1: me for advice. I had my peers. I was helping
1:58:46
Speaker 1: people come up with their plans being c and I'm like,
1:58:50
Speaker 1: you know, to speaking license to everybody else, what are
1:58:52
Speaker 1: you gonna do for yourself? How was you going to
1:58:55
Speaker 1: manifest things for yourself? And so that's when I started
1:58:59
Speaker 1: to create newly. Some one day, I was sitting in
1:59:02
Speaker 1: my office, I picked up my purse, I locked the door,
1:59:06
Speaker 1: and I never returned back to corporate. And after that,
1:59:11
Speaker 1: I made a decision that I'm going to live for me.
1:59:14
Speaker 1: And I had so many people telling me, I can't
1:59:16
Speaker 1: believe you quit that good job. I can't believe what
1:59:18
Speaker 1: you're gonna do. How you time, I don't know what.
1:59:25
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means, because to me,
1:59:28
Speaker 1: I was working so hard I didn't even have time
1:59:30
Speaker 1: for to have a life. I mean, I had money,
1:59:33
Speaker 1: but I didn't have time to enjoy and have experiences.
1:59:37
Speaker 1: So I didn't look at it as a good job
1:59:39
Speaker 1: to me my mind frame. I worked to enjoy life,
1:59:42
Speaker 1: not work to pay bills. That's something that's already known
1:59:45
Speaker 1: that you have to do. So I wasn't enjoying the
1:59:48
Speaker 1: position that I was in. I was stressed out, and
1:59:51
Speaker 1: I had to remove that from I had to remove
1:59:53
Speaker 1: myself from that situation because of everything that I had
1:59:56
Speaker 1: been through. I had to start creating a life for myself.
2:00:00
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know, this is my passion. I
2:00:02
Speaker 1: can help assist people with healing. I can motivate people,
2:00:06
Speaker 1: I can help heal people. I can talk to people
2:00:08
Speaker 1: and tell them about my story. And that's how I
2:00:10
Speaker 1: got to here. And look at God, this is it's crazy. No,
2:00:16
Speaker 1: it's not crazy, it's it's it's you know what I
2:00:18
Speaker 1: what I consistently hear in your voice. First of all,
2:00:21
Speaker 1: you're you're authentic, and you're down home, which I love.
2:00:23
Speaker 1: And I'm from Houston, Texas. I'm a Southern boy and
2:00:26
Speaker 1: uh and it rings true in your tone and and
2:00:30
Speaker 1: like I'm a cancer survivor and so I know when
2:00:34
Speaker 1: I know what you felt like I was laughing you
2:00:36
Speaker 1: by the Africa. I know when they when they told
2:00:38
Speaker 1: me I cancer, I have some places I wanted to
2:00:40
Speaker 1: go to. Okay, and uh, because you just never know,
2:00:43
Speaker 1: because I don't care what any When people tell you
2:00:45
Speaker 1: that the term or cancer or tumor or anything that's cancerous,
2:00:48
Speaker 1: it always feels terminal because I don't You don't think
2:00:51
Speaker 1: about who survived. All you know is that cancer people die,
2:00:55
Speaker 1: and so and so and so when that happens, and
2:00:58
Speaker 1: then it happened to you much younger age than I
2:01:01
Speaker 1: was when I discovered it. And but when you find
2:01:04
Speaker 1: out about it does put you everything in perspective. And
2:01:07
Speaker 1: I like to believe that one of the greater levels
2:01:10
Speaker 1: of perspective is to say, you know something, I'm gonna
2:01:12
Speaker 1: do what I want to do with my life because
2:01:14
Speaker 1: it's the only one I have. I like it. There
2:01:17
Speaker 1: was one of the driving forces to your passion right
2:01:19
Speaker 1: now and why you're successful now and opening up the
2:01:23
Speaker 1: CBD store. What was some of the obstacles of opening
2:01:26
Speaker 1: new leaf Number one? Okay, don't don't you do that
2:01:33
Speaker 1: to me. So let me say, when I decided to
2:01:38
Speaker 1: do this, I wanted to have a business partner. I
2:01:41
Speaker 1: did not want to go into this by myself, because
2:01:45
Speaker 1: to run a business with one brain is very challenging,
2:01:49
Speaker 1: and so I was talking to many people and everybody's like, Oh,
2:01:52
Speaker 1: that's dope, that's what's up that right, But no one
2:01:56
Speaker 1: wanted to put no money in. People like to read
2:01:58
Speaker 1: the benefits. They don't want to, but they don't want
2:02:00
Speaker 1: to go through the work. And so I got tired
2:02:03
Speaker 1: of trying to sell my dreams to people who I
2:02:05
Speaker 1: thought was going to benefit from it. I stopped trying to,
2:02:10
Speaker 1: you know, wait for somebody to give me confirmation that
2:02:13
Speaker 1: this was a go. And I said, well, God, I'm
2:02:15
Speaker 1: gonna need you to be my business partner. I'm gonna
2:02:18
Speaker 1: need you to assist me with this because this is
2:02:20
Speaker 1: my first rodeo and I need your assistance all all
2:02:24
Speaker 1: through it. I need you to cover me and the
2:02:25
Speaker 1: blood as I continue to move forward, because sometimes I
2:02:28
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm doing. And when he when I
2:02:31
Speaker 1: had that talk of God, I felt it he told
2:02:34
Speaker 1: me to go. I literally felt like I heard a
2:02:37
Speaker 1: voice that said move, like, go, do what you gotta do,
2:02:40
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna I'm gonna make sure you're okay. And
2:02:43
Speaker 1: when I tell you, I decided to make that leap
2:02:46
Speaker 1: and things started to fall into place. Now, let me
2:02:49
Speaker 1: tell you. I know, I don't want to make it
2:02:51
Speaker 1: seem like it was easy, because I remember coming into
2:02:54
Speaker 1: this building that I chose and having to paint walls
2:02:58
Speaker 1: due the floors, and I was crying while I was
2:03:00
Speaker 1: doing it. My back was hurting everything in me. I
2:03:03
Speaker 1: was everyone who said that it was gonna help. Some
2:03:05
Speaker 1: people didn't show up, you know, um contract. But you
2:03:10
Speaker 1: know the thing about it is that it didn't stop
2:03:12
Speaker 1: you though that that here's the beauty. Let me ask
2:03:16
Speaker 1: you this. Okay, can you buy your product online? Okay? Cool?
2:03:20
Speaker 1: So can you do me a favor? Okay? Because I'm
2:03:23
Speaker 1: a fan. I'm a fan Jack Quis Jennings Um, because
2:03:28
Speaker 1: I've been going through I saw you featured in Essence,
2:03:30
Speaker 1: I saw you featured in the E R Web. You
2:03:33
Speaker 1: know you've done a great job of promoting your brand,
2:03:36
Speaker 1: and being on my show is another angle of getting
2:03:39
Speaker 1: the word out that that I commend you on that
2:03:40
Speaker 1: because people don't know about your business, and guess what,
2:03:43
Speaker 1: people can't buy your business. Okay. And so I have
2:03:45
Speaker 1: a newsletter I give out every Friday at nine am.
2:03:49
Speaker 1: It goes out to eighty thousand followers. I like to
2:03:51
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2:03:53
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2:03:56
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2:04:09
Speaker 1: means so much to me. And blessing your way, that
2:04:12
Speaker 1: really means a lot to me, because I really want
2:04:15
Speaker 1: people to start healing, and it's not even just about
2:04:18
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2:04:21
Speaker 1: to be able to just think for themselves and pay
2:04:24
Speaker 1: attention to what they put in their body. Because when
2:04:26
Speaker 1: people start to find out how these medications are approved
2:04:29
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2:04:32
Speaker 1: inside of their body. Right. Because I love that. I
2:04:34
Speaker 1: love this. It's kind of like a green like green
2:04:38
Speaker 1: brown bottle design. It looks really cool, looks professional, everything
2:04:42
Speaker 1: looks wonderful. I'm just looking at images on the various
2:04:45
Speaker 1: ads and things like that. I just I love what
2:04:47
Speaker 1: you're doing here. I love the fact that you don't
2:04:50
Speaker 1: have to have a prescription to buy your product. I
2:04:52
Speaker 1: love the fact that I have some good friends who
2:04:55
Speaker 1: are doing this as well. But you know you wanted
2:04:57
Speaker 1: the few females who have cracked that last ceiling to
2:05:00
Speaker 1: go out there and do this on your own. So
2:05:02
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my best. I got six sisters, so
2:05:05
Speaker 1: I gotta help out one more little Cis. Okay, I'm
2:05:07
Speaker 1: gonna throw you in the Little Cis mand wagon. That's
2:05:11
Speaker 1: perfectly fine with me. Perfect I appreciate you, and so again,
2:05:16
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation, Miss Jennings.
2:05:19
Speaker 1: And again, you are special. Your motivation is on point,
2:05:23
Speaker 1: your honesty is off the chart, and your authenticity is
2:05:27
Speaker 1: a blessing. Okay, I appreciate that, and I'm sending you
2:05:30
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2:05:33
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2:05:36
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