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Rushion Interviews Raashaun (DJ Envy from The Breakfast Club) and Gia Casey discuss "Real Life, Real Love." | Itiona Scott on starting first black owned marinade and salad dressing in Whole Foods! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I'm your host, Rashwan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: I recognize that we all have different deficitions of success.
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Speaker 1: My guests today are Power Cup Rashawn Casey, known as
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Speaker 1: DJ Mvy and gr Casey. They host the popular podcast
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Speaker 1: The Casey Crew. Their podcast explores the good, bad, and
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Speaker 1: ugly size of relationships and family life. It has been
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Speaker 1: ranked by Essence is one of the best podcasts about
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Speaker 1: Black love and family. Rashan is also host of the
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Speaker 1: popular Breakfast Club alongside Charlemagne the Garden Angela Lee. He
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Speaker 1: currently lives with his wife Jill in the New Jersey area.
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Speaker 1: Their book, which will be just reading about today and
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Speaker 1: talking about because I've read it last night and ready
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Speaker 1: to good morning. Actually I read it twice. It's a
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Speaker 1: very entertaining narrative about how to grow together in a
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Speaker 1: relationship and the aspirational guy book for people who seek
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Speaker 1: the same unconditional love in their relationship and an in
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Speaker 1: depth look at how to remain equals after being thrust
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Speaker 1: into the public eye. In it, the cases share their
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Speaker 1: love story and the different journeys they look and experience
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Speaker 1: to maintain this long standing relationship. Please welcome to Money
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Speaker 1: Making Conversation Masterclass. Rashawn Casey and gr Casey. How y'are doing?
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Speaker 1: They are wonderful. Thanks for having us. Well, let's get
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Speaker 1: some looks a little ground like. My name is Rashan,
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Speaker 1: If you don't mind for an interview, can I just
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Speaker 1: call your d J Envy so we want Yeah, of course,
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Speaker 1: capital got very creative. Oh that's awesome. That's awesome. But
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Speaker 1: you know, when you write a book like this, I've
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Speaker 1: been I've been blessed, you know. I've been with Steve
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Speaker 1: Harvey when he wrote his act Like a Lady, Think
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Speaker 1: like a Man, that I was able, the market that
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Speaker 1: we sold three million copies and and thirty languages worldwide,
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Speaker 1: and when you and I like the book. First of all,
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Speaker 1: it's not about color, which I think is really smart
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Speaker 1: because the concerns that you have here personally impact everybody.
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Speaker 1: Was there a conscious effort to my not making a
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Speaker 1: book for black women a book for black men because
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Speaker 1: it's a book about men and women. No, it's a
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Speaker 1: book about love and finding true love, growing in that
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Speaker 1: true love, and maintaining So for us, love is universal,
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Speaker 1: So it could speak to anyone specifically, if you desire
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Speaker 1: love in your life, it speaks to you, you know.
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Speaker 1: I remember when I was in high school and uh
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Speaker 1: I had I had the best friend and he he
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Speaker 1: met his who eventually married met her the ninth grade
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Speaker 1: and tenth grade, Nick married and and it always has
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Speaker 1: blown me away that, wow, how did they understand that
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Speaker 1: relationship that that was them? Because I didn't get married
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Speaker 1: to I was thirty two and I've been married for
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Speaker 1: thirty three years. As you know, there's a journey in
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Speaker 1: those thirty three years, as there's a journey in your book.
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Speaker 1: And so I've had my share with ups and downs
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Speaker 1: and personality conflicts with my wife, so there's no perfection
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Speaker 1: in there. And then I read about your book, you know,
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Speaker 1: meeting at sixteen years of age, you running track, he's
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Speaker 1: in this blue corn. It is some bands basically trying
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Speaker 1: to seek your attention and all this stuff. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how you gonna seek your attention and a used
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Speaker 1: can it is a but he thought he had it
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Speaker 1: on going on? How how though you know? You know,
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Speaker 1: how did y'all know? And that I always I always
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Speaker 1: feel that's a blessing in my case because I didn't
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Speaker 1: see it and understand the ability to say I could
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Speaker 1: love somebody and then say this is the person I
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Speaker 1: want to be with for the rest of my life.
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Speaker 1: I start with you dj mpy. Yeah, I think I
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Speaker 1: knew right away. Uh, Like I said, when I was
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Speaker 1: in high school. I wasn't. As my mom would say,
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Speaker 1: they catch me out right, I was pretty handsome guy.
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Speaker 1: Now you stop, now you're pretty hansoul guy. You're pretty
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Speaker 1: handsfol I'll take that now. Back then I was fined
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Speaker 1: for four I had glasses braces, and I wasn't there.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't the cutest out there. So when I seen her,
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Speaker 1: she was my everything. She was the most beautiful girl
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life. And just to tell
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Speaker 1: everybody out there, like I said, yes, I would start
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Speaker 1: at track, but you know, just amazing your sixte he's fifteen,
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Speaker 1: she's running track and you know those tracks, the Titan
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Speaker 1: Skippy and I used to watch it and back and
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Speaker 1: she had double D and I would just sit there
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Speaker 1: and watch her right there. I was in love. And
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Speaker 1: then when I only got a chance to when we
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Speaker 1: got a chance to talk and speak, and she was
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Speaker 1: so smart and but she had just she was what
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Speaker 1: she wanted to do in life, and just everything about
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Speaker 1: it was just like this is mine, Like I want this.
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Speaker 1: I want to marry her right now if I could.
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Speaker 1: And I knew from there and then on that that
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Speaker 1: was gonna be my wife. Okay, And I see that
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Speaker 1: is not in the book. The five four glasses is
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Speaker 1: not described in the book now so so so I
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Speaker 1: take back that handsome line I gave to your dj. Okay,
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Speaker 1: now let's go over to jail. Were you running around
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Speaker 1: this track? You know, just what were your hundred? Two hundred,
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Speaker 1: four hundred? What were you? I was a two hundred
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Speaker 1: and Oh she can't round that curve on your brothers,
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Speaker 1: you can't run that curve. So so here's this five
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Speaker 1: ft four glass wearing dude and a consent blue van.
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Speaker 1: Gave you his number to you, and you were supposed
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Speaker 1: to call him, but you didn't call what Well, I
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Speaker 1: didn't call him right away. I had just transferred into
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Speaker 1: his school, as I skipped a grade, and I should
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Speaker 1: have put this sophomore, but I was a junior and
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Speaker 1: I was fresh meat at the school. So I had
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Speaker 1: a lot of attention, and I wanted to gauge my prospects.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to see, you know, where these other potential
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Speaker 1: relationships would go. But he was so persistent. He acted
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Speaker 1: like a man who knew what he wanted and going
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Speaker 1: to go after it at all costs. And that impressed me.
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Speaker 1: And there's a story attached to it, but I'll leave
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Speaker 1: that for those that are interesting reading. But when he
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Speaker 1: finally got my attention and we began speaking on the phone,
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Speaker 1: we'd be on the phone for six hours, seven hours,
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Speaker 1: eight hours until the sun came up, until we had
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Speaker 1: to get ready for school the next day. And it
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Speaker 1: took about maybe two weeks, and I were having this
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Speaker 1: epiphany and thinking to myself, I'm going to marry this kid,
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Speaker 1: like we're going to be together forever. And it was
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Speaker 1: such a strong feeling. It was a knowing. And that's
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Speaker 1: part of the magic that we speak of in the
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Speaker 1: title the Joys and Pains, and the magic that held
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Speaker 1: us together, And that was part of it. It was
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Speaker 1: that early knowing there was something special if you believe
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Speaker 1: in soulmates. Um. I probably the closest thing to a
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Speaker 1: soul mate that I could describe, even at that young age,
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Speaker 1: and even with that little experience okay, because okay, we
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Speaker 1: didn't have went to high school, go through that whole thing,
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Speaker 1: and you graduate and you go to college, like fifteen
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Speaker 1: minutes apart from each other in college, and you went
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Speaker 1: to an HBCU, Sir, Yeah, I went to him the university.
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Speaker 1: Real ate you yes, sir, Yes, I've heard that so
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Speaker 1: many times one of my employees, and Mattha Taylor's that's
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Speaker 1: all I hear all the time, The real ate you,
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Speaker 1: real ate you. So why the real h you and
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Speaker 1: not d C you. Well, you know, coming from New York,
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Speaker 1: whose name we do not speak, coming from New York,
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Speaker 1: you know, I go to HBCU run right in the
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Speaker 1: HBC run is Morrigan, then it's Howard, then it's it's
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Speaker 1: it's a Virginia Union and Hampton, and it's more My
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Speaker 1: mom wanted me to go to Morehouse. She wanted me
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Speaker 1: to be a Morehouse man. I was the first person
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Speaker 1: in my family to go to college, first person of
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Speaker 1: my family to graduate. But then I had my boot
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Speaker 1: in New York and more House is too far off
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Speaker 1: a drive, and back then I couldn't afford the flight,
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Speaker 1: so I would have to drive. So Hampton was six
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Speaker 1: hours away. So I'm like, I'll go to Hampton, She'll
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Speaker 1: go to Old Dominion and we can still be there.
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Speaker 1: I could drive him every weekend. It's a six hour drive.
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Speaker 1: So University was a college I chose. And when because
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Speaker 1: we've seen the popularity the surge and HBCUs now you know,
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Speaker 1: especially twenty large donations. What did it do for you
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Speaker 1: as an individual? And why would you recommend a person
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Speaker 1: I'm sure to go to an HBCU because it benefited
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Speaker 1: to you. And it was so when I look back,
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Speaker 1: I thought out numbers all the time, the doctor's and
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Speaker 1: then it's a black comprom HBCU, members of Congress from HBCU,
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Speaker 1: the public school teachers come from HBCU. These numbers, people
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Speaker 1: don't know how didn't impact you well many different ways,
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Speaker 1: one of me being in the entertainment industry. I was
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Speaker 1: from New York. All I knew was New York. So
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Speaker 1: going to hbc U. I had a roommate from Mississippi
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Speaker 1: put me over to music from Mississippi. I had roommates
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Speaker 1: from Indiana that put me on from music from Indiana.
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Speaker 1: But not only that. I would travel with them back
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Speaker 1: home and see how they lived, and it opened me
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Speaker 1: my taste up to other types of music. But not
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Speaker 1: only that. When I'm in school, that's one thing I
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Speaker 1: don't have to worry about. I don't have to worry
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Speaker 1: about the racist teacher and the racism in my school. Right,
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Speaker 1: I can concentrate on learning and the teachers at HBCUs.
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Speaker 1: They want you to win up just a little bit more,
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Speaker 1: so they're gonna put their arm around you. If you're
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Speaker 1: having a problem, you're having a situation, they're gonna help
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Speaker 1: you a little more. If there's a problem back home,
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Speaker 1: if you can't afford something, if financial or stress back home,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna put their arm around you. In this law
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Speaker 1: of a family member helping you, opposed to just somebody
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Speaker 1: that's out there that has to get their check and
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Speaker 1: they're gonna get paid on Friday, don't really care about
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Speaker 1: you like they are gonna be there. I remember I
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Speaker 1: had a situation where I could not figure calculus out.
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Speaker 1: It was one of those things. It was just hard
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Speaker 1: for me. Numbers were googling. And that teacher would would
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Speaker 1: come to my apartment. That teach you would meet me
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Speaker 1: in the library. That teach you would make sure I
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Speaker 1: knew what I was doing, even if she said, look,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna have lunch in my office and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: learn this, and that's what it was, and and and
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Speaker 1: she stayed with me until I got it right, you know.
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Speaker 1: And that's some of the things we don't experience. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they experienced in any other kind of My
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Speaker 1: daughter goes to n y U and she doesn't say
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Speaker 1: the same thing. So that's the type of thing that
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Speaker 1: I experienced at HBCU. We know, it's really interesting when
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Speaker 1: I'm watching you talk, You're very in tune to him talking.
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Speaker 1: And is that is because you know, that's a that's
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Speaker 1: a relationship. There's like I know it's been long term.
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Speaker 1: You know, like my wife, she'll watch me. I just
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Speaker 1: I can just feel her just watching my words come
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Speaker 1: out of my MoMA. Sometimes you go, you shouldn't have
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Speaker 1: said that, you know, later all you know, you could
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Speaker 1: have said this differently. You know, she produces my radio show,
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Speaker 1: and you know at the end of the radio show,
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Speaker 1: I get a call, well, you know, you shouldn't have
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Speaker 1: said it ain't and you really you really do selfish
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Speaker 1: that call right there, and things like that. So is
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Speaker 1: she am? I see a life producer a radio producer.
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Speaker 1: Podcast are Kindred Spirit? The breakfast club? Every day? Say
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Speaker 1: to the breakfast club people when it's home from the
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Speaker 1: breakfast club or wherever he's going next, I critique and
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Speaker 1: he's been on breakfast clubs about ten years. I love it.
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Speaker 1: Today we have a conversation about the way that he
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Speaker 1: handled different things, or the way that he phrased different things,
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Speaker 1: or his take on different things. So I'm always critiquing him.
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Speaker 1: And it's because I'm in his corner, and it's because
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Speaker 1: I want the best for him and I know his
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Speaker 1: potential and I want him to be the very best
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Speaker 1: at meeting. So I do everything that I possibly can
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Speaker 1: to try to support them. And up. We'll be right
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Speaker 1: back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, because see, I couldn't deal
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Speaker 1: with criticism DJ, and um, you know, yeah, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: this is interesting. You know I really couldn't. That's what
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you something twice. I've read it twice. Okay,
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Speaker 1: because you know, you go through and you go thirty
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Speaker 1: three years of marriage, you go okay, And and so
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Speaker 1: because in my all way, because when you talk about
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Speaker 1: being and having a controlling personality in your book, several
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Speaker 1: chapters you talk about that. I love the one where
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Speaker 1: you put over your shoulders and walked her out of
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Speaker 1: the party, I would, Okay, he really crazy. I know
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Speaker 1: that's not PC, but I gotta say he's crazy right now, okay,
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Speaker 1: right out of the damn parted like like like she's
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Speaker 1: gonna go, okay, I'm cool with that. Okay, honey, I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at who I'm doing. Who I'm looking at it
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Speaker 1: right now? No, it wouldn't happen now. She got a
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Speaker 1: reputation there with and you ain't gonna ruin it there.
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Speaker 1: Oh I love you, but not that, but okay, cross
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Speaker 1: the line, captain stupid okay, and so and so. So
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Speaker 1: the reason I asked that if that it took me
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Speaker 1: a minute to admit did I needed her to be
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Speaker 1: critical of me? And I wouldn't say the word critical,
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Speaker 1: but I would say that, um, I needed somebody to
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Speaker 1: check me. M you know. And because when you get successful,
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Speaker 1: as you know, very few people start checking you because
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Speaker 1: some of them have they're getting They ain'tle checking because
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Speaker 1: they don't lose their check, or you become so influential
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Speaker 1: that you can persuade them out of their point of view.
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Speaker 1: So once I realized, huh, yeah, but you but still
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Speaker 1: he's gifted though, he's gifted, and so he's a gifted communicator.
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Speaker 1: And so if you're a gifted communicate because I know
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Speaker 1: I am and somebody can come to me with the
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Speaker 1: best debate in the world. I go, okay, whatever, whatever
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Speaker 1: them away and they just shut down. They go, okay,
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Speaker 1: he just said, whatever, How do I get out of this?
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Speaker 1: So when I when I only say that they saying
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Speaker 1: is that I found the book very relatable for me
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Speaker 1: and very confiding for me because of the fact that
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Speaker 1: I and I come back to you when I when
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Speaker 1: I see the word controlling, it feels like a giant
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Speaker 1: see in the book. And to me it was just
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Speaker 1: an admission, as I had to admit that we all
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Speaker 1: have to respect information and receive information. And I think
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Speaker 1: that once you accepted receiving information, that's where the true
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Speaker 1: trust came into relationship. That's where it came into the mind.
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Speaker 1: Is I'm hitting in the areas that made sense to you?
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Speaker 1: D j M. Absolutely. You know one thing about I
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Speaker 1: would say about my wife and sometimes I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you're a virgal brother, but like sometimes I just
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Speaker 1: don't like to hear it. And I had to get
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Speaker 1: to a point where I'm like, she's criticizing me, and
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Speaker 1: she's being critical because she was to help me. She
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Speaker 1: was to make me better. She see that can make
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Speaker 1: me better. She's looking from the outside, and sometimes I
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Speaker 1: wasn't accepting of that information. But now I'm at a
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Speaker 1: point where I realized, no, if she's telling me something,
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Speaker 1: she's trying to make sure I'm better, that I don't
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Speaker 1: do it again, that I don't mess up, that I'm
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Speaker 1: I'm being the best restored or being the best dj envy,
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Speaker 1: that I can be right, And that's really important. So
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Speaker 1: so when you was pushing back on the you know,
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Speaker 1: their advice. Lets use the word advice, not criticism, not critique.
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Speaker 1: When he was pushing back on advice, how did that
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Speaker 1: make you feel? Gil? Did you did you feel at
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Speaker 1: one point I just throw your hands up and go,
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Speaker 1: he's not gonna get it? Or how did that? Because
15:46
Speaker 1: this is all part of the relationship that people need
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Speaker 1: to hear about when they hit these walls in the relationship,
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Speaker 1: you don't stop. When you have somebody that you love.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to walk through the rocky point in
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Speaker 1: order to extend the quality of the relationship. Right, um, now,
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Speaker 1: this was a perpetual thing. If I'm being on it,
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Speaker 1: my old overnight, my one overnight, I myself admitted, Um,
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Speaker 1: somewhat perfectionist. I like to do things to the very
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Speaker 1: best of my potential. My father to say to me,
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna put your name on something, make sure
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Speaker 1: that it's the very damn best that you're able to produce. UM.
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Speaker 1: So I look at him that way because I respect
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Speaker 1: him so much and I think that he is phenomenal
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Speaker 1: at what he does. UM. And when he would deflect
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Speaker 1: my advice as as we agreed to put it, UM, No,
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Speaker 1: I never said to myself while I'm just gonna throw
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Speaker 1: my hands up because he's not being receptive, because that
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Speaker 1: would mean that I would be giving up on him.
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Speaker 1: And I knew that if I kept knocking, if I
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Speaker 1: kept knocking and kept knocking, eventually that that wall would
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Speaker 1: come down and didn't I was right. UM. I just
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Speaker 1: had to learn how to be delicate about the things
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Speaker 1: that I said and UM to approach him with kid
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Speaker 1: gloves to make sure that I recognized all of the
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Speaker 1: positive as well as whatever I perceived as things that
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Speaker 1: could be done better. Because you know, you can't just
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Speaker 1: communicate with someone in that way because if not, if
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Speaker 1: you do, they feel as though they're being attacked. So
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Speaker 1: I had to make sure that my intention was very
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Speaker 1: clear to him and that it wasn't an attack. It
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Speaker 1: was really because I believed him to be so much
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Speaker 1: better than what he may have done that day. Right,
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Speaker 1: I'm talking to Rashaan Casey and otherwise known as DJ
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Speaker 1: Envy and g Casey. Their book a very very great read,
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Speaker 1: amazing family photos. In the end, uh he said he
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Speaker 1: was a five ft shorty with glasses, but he's a
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Speaker 1: real handsome guy. Back then to real life, real love life,
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Speaker 1: Lessons of joy, pain and the magic that holds us together.
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Speaker 1: In the twenty five questions that ask yourself before you
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Speaker 1: ask yourself before we getting married, this is the one
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Speaker 1: question that really um stuck with me. Well, I wanted
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Speaker 1: for a lifetime. Yes, And you know when I when
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Speaker 1: I look at my life, and I had had success,
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Speaker 1: a lot of success early in life. And I always
18:17
Speaker 1: tell people when you have a career, you know, you
18:19
Speaker 1: never think about forty, fifty, sixty, And that's what a
18:23
Speaker 1: career is. Like you said, you've been doing the Breakfast
18:25
Speaker 1: Club twelve years, you know, is it eight more years?
18:28
Speaker 1: Is it twenty more years? Because that's what the career is.
18:32
Speaker 1: And so when you look at a relationship, we don't
18:34
Speaker 1: kind of see that either. We just say we're married
18:37
Speaker 1: and we don't start projecting ten, fifteen, twenty years. So
18:41
Speaker 1: when you say what I wanted for a lifetime, I
18:43
Speaker 1: would say I'm married because I wanted that was the
18:47
Speaker 1: person I loved, and I said I wanted to be
18:49
Speaker 1: with that person forever. But I never put the word
18:51
Speaker 1: lifetime on it. Can you can you help me with that,
18:54
Speaker 1: with that statement that you mean when you say with lifetime,
18:58
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, I don't see anybody else
19:00
Speaker 1: in my life besides again, as far as lifetime, I
19:03
Speaker 1: I see us getting old together, wiping each other's butts together.
19:07
Speaker 1: Uh you know, if we all have to sit sit,
19:10
Speaker 1: you know, through a straw because we have no teeth,
19:12
Speaker 1: I see us doing that together. I'm still when she
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Speaker 1: when she walks by me, I'm still gonna slap on
19:16
Speaker 1: the bookie, And I'm sure she's still gonna slap me
19:18
Speaker 1: on my bookie. You still wrong hands and walk down
19:21
Speaker 1: the beach together like this is my soul mate. Like
19:23
Speaker 1: I don't see my life without anybody but her, and
19:26
Speaker 1: I look forward to those moments. I look forward to
19:28
Speaker 1: those times. I look forward to you know, being seventy
19:31
Speaker 1: years old and the convertible still come back and we're
19:33
Speaker 1: still riding around like we're nineteen years old. I still
19:35
Speaker 1: look forward to those moments and I don't see my
19:38
Speaker 1: life without anybody besides her. See the word lifetime, It
19:43
Speaker 1: seems like such a simple question, right, you want for
19:46
Speaker 1: a lifetime? Well, I'm worrying him, of course I wanted
19:48
Speaker 1: for a lifetime. But how many people stop and actually
19:51
Speaker 1: think about that word lifetime and what it actually means
19:57
Speaker 1: the same way like they take for granted the word
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Speaker 1: love and the meaning of love. Lifetime means now, later, forever,
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Speaker 1: through all the stages, through all the ups and downs,
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Speaker 1: through all of the changes, to be there and to
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Speaker 1: commit to it forever. People don't really sit back and
20:17
Speaker 1: think about it. Critically. They're so worried thinking about the wedding,
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Speaker 1: the spectacle of it, and the rapture of emotion that
20:24
Speaker 1: they're feeling at that present time, and they don't think
20:27
Speaker 1: about years from now. And people gain weight, people's looks change,
20:32
Speaker 1: people's personalities change, life and experiences change people. Are you
20:37
Speaker 1: going to be with that person? Committed, loyal and everything
20:42
Speaker 1: else that comes along with marriage through all of those trials.
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Speaker 1: Are you prepared for it? Are you willing to be
20:47
Speaker 1: there for a lifetime. People don't typically think about that,
20:52
Speaker 1: Oh you good, you good year. You really really I've
20:58
Speaker 1: enjoyed this I've seen in my check you know, because
21:04
Speaker 1: I I you know, because I felt in doing this
21:07
Speaker 1: interview I had to be honest with you, guys. I
21:10
Speaker 1: couldn't set myself on the pedal store and not say
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Speaker 1: that for thirty three years, I had a perfect I've
21:16
Speaker 1: had a perfect relationship. She is the person I'm going
21:19
Speaker 1: to die with. But I knew it was a point
21:21
Speaker 1: in my life that you know, I got crazy. You know,
21:24
Speaker 1: success makes you crazy, It makes you stupid, makes you disrespectful,
21:28
Speaker 1: makes you forget how you got there. Let me repeat that,
21:34
Speaker 1: forget how you got there? Because when and and the
21:38
Speaker 1: line that really stood out for me in this book
21:40
Speaker 1: and when really came into play with you was my
21:44
Speaker 1: wife didn't want to be my wife anymore. I've had
21:48
Speaker 1: that moment, my brother. But I thought I was making
21:54
Speaker 1: that decision. When you realized you weren't making that decision,
22:03
Speaker 1: tell us how it impacted you. That's a good question. Um,
22:09
Speaker 1: you know this was a crazy one because you know,
22:13
Speaker 1: when I looked and it was my stupidity. But when
22:16
Speaker 1: I looked at people and I would read stories of
22:18
Speaker 1: me growing up and I heard somebody committed suicide or
22:20
Speaker 1: somebody trying to commit suicide, I always thought they were soft, right.
22:24
Speaker 1: I always thought they were sucker. Why would you want
22:26
Speaker 1: to do that? Until I got to the lowest ever,
22:29
Speaker 1: and when my wife said she didn't want to be
22:30
Speaker 1: my wife anymore, my life I thought was over. I
22:34
Speaker 1: thought I couldn't be a good man, I couldn't be
22:36
Speaker 1: a good father, I couldn't be a good husband, I
22:37
Speaker 1: couldn't be a good lover. And it got to the
22:39
Speaker 1: point where I was so low I really felt like
22:42
Speaker 1: me not being in this world will be better for
22:45
Speaker 1: her and better for my kids. And I was there,
22:48
Speaker 1: like I was there, it was no longer I thought
22:50
Speaker 1: that was so if that's how I felt. I felt
22:52
Speaker 1: like me not being here would be better off for
22:55
Speaker 1: everybody else. And when my wife said she didn't want
22:58
Speaker 1: to be my wife anymore, I felt like life was
22:59
Speaker 1: going about like there's no there's no reason to live,
23:02
Speaker 1: you know here here I am uh a young fellow.
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Speaker 1: At the time, I had a lot of money, We
23:08
Speaker 1: had everything that we thought we need, right we had
23:11
Speaker 1: cars and homes and in vacations and jewelry and shoes
23:14
Speaker 1: and bags and speakers, and all of that meant nothing.
23:18
Speaker 1: The only thing that I wrote it and the only
23:22
Speaker 1: thing that meant the most to me, I didn't want
23:24
Speaker 1: to be with me anymore. And at that moment right there,
23:27
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be anymore. And that's how I felt. Wow,
23:33
Speaker 1: And you wanted to say something, Yeah, no, I'll let you.
23:37
Speaker 1: I'll let you, Okay, cool, you know, because see it
23:40
Speaker 1: comes into players. I have one child, and uh, because
23:44
Speaker 1: I don't want to keep you alone, because it's I
23:45
Speaker 1: could be talking to y'all forever here, because I enjoyed talking,
23:49
Speaker 1: you know. You know my one child my wife said
23:52
Speaker 1: she didn't want to have because I was never home.
23:54
Speaker 1: I always tell people, you know, I just stand up comic.
23:56
Speaker 1: I left Stand up comment in a eight and went
23:59
Speaker 1: to New York and lived in New York for two years,
24:01
Speaker 1: and lived in the l a for fifteen years. I
24:03
Speaker 1: think that the first part of our lives, I may
24:06
Speaker 1: have been we may have been married like twelve years,
24:08
Speaker 1: we may have been together like three years in the
24:11
Speaker 1: same place, and so but and I have a little
24:14
Speaker 1: tape for my daughter. Well, I kind of like to
24:17
Speaker 1: have raised my daughter on the phone. And I have
24:19
Speaker 1: this what she she called leave a message. I love you,
24:21
Speaker 1: dadd and my dad and I gave it to on
24:24
Speaker 1: twenty birthday and just surprised her and I. And it
24:27
Speaker 1: says that your children are always watching, listening, and learning.
24:31
Speaker 1: That's the line from your book. And and I want
24:34
Speaker 1: to turn to you g on this because I think
24:37
Speaker 1: that we forget that. We forget that just because we
24:41
Speaker 1: can be in another room talking, they don't see the body,
24:44
Speaker 1: they don't understand our body language. Just because we can
24:46
Speaker 1: raise our voice here, they don't hear that. In this
24:49
Speaker 1: book about relationship, can you play and let our listeners
24:53
Speaker 1: see and hear the importance of recognizing your children are
24:57
Speaker 1: always learning, they're always watching, and they're always listening. Yes,
25:02
Speaker 1: we are our children's first and most significant teachers. People
25:08
Speaker 1: think that when you have good children, they're just inherently
25:13
Speaker 1: that way, as though they just became good by happenstance.
25:16
Speaker 1: For in the same respect bad as some parents like
25:20
Speaker 1: to describe their kids, which I don't agree with, but
25:23
Speaker 1: we'll let that go by happenstance. Um. When you have
25:27
Speaker 1: good children, it is because they were raised by parents
25:32
Speaker 1: or grandparents or whomever who was deliberate and very intentional
25:37
Speaker 1: about their upbringing, about the lessons that they were taught.
25:41
Speaker 1: That is vital. We don't just teach by sitting down
25:46
Speaker 1: and explaining things to our children. We teach by action.
25:51
Speaker 1: We teach simply by living, and children are always watching.
25:56
Speaker 1: Even when not watching intentionally, they're always watching. They're learning.
26:01
Speaker 1: We lead by example, and they use our lives and
26:04
Speaker 1: how we deal with people, how we deal with situations
26:07
Speaker 1: as their first line of reference points. So whenever I'm
26:12
Speaker 1: around my children, I make sure that I'm on my
26:16
Speaker 1: best behavior because we try to find things intentionally and
26:21
Speaker 1: unintentionally to teach our children. For instance, Shawan Lee is
26:27
Speaker 1: a very stressful life. He has I don't know six
26:30
Speaker 1: seven different businesses and that that requires a lot of time.
26:34
Speaker 1: It requires a lot of work, a lot of energy. Um.
26:38
Speaker 1: He's expended mentally all the time. His eyes are often low,
26:42
Speaker 1: and he tries his very best to not bring that
26:46
Speaker 1: into the house, Like he takes those shoes off at
26:48
Speaker 1: the door. Sometimes it doesn't always work, and those shoes
26:52
Speaker 1: come inside the house with him, and sometimes I bear
26:55
Speaker 1: the brunt of it. Sometimes the kids bear the brunt
26:57
Speaker 1: of it. And with those same kid gloves we talked
27:00
Speaker 1: about earlier, I might sit him down and say, you
27:02
Speaker 1: know what, when Logan asked you about whatever it was, UM,
27:07
Speaker 1: you could have handled him a little bit differently. UM.
27:10
Speaker 1: I think that he probably walked away thinking that you
27:12
Speaker 1: didn't care, that you were yuessing him, that you weren't
27:14
Speaker 1: really paying attention. So you might want to go and
27:16
Speaker 1: have a conversation with him, and Rashaun will park up
27:19
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, is that is that really what you
27:21
Speaker 1: took away? Absolutely, that's what I took away, And he'll
27:23
Speaker 1: walk down the hole and go to the Logan's room,
27:25
Speaker 1: knock on the door, sit down and apologize and say,
27:29
Speaker 1: you know what, I've been overworked this week and I
27:33
Speaker 1: didn't really have that much pace and patience. I wasn't
27:36
Speaker 1: really there when you were talking to me. I am sorry,
27:39
Speaker 1: and let's have that conversation again. Let's let's redo it.
27:42
Speaker 1: And my son not only gets to have his father
27:47
Speaker 1: present in those moments, but he's able to learn that
27:50
Speaker 1: apologizing isn't soft, Apologizing doesn't make you less of a man,
27:56
Speaker 1: a real man could admit when he's wrong, a real
27:59
Speaker 1: man and unveil his flaws and take accountability for it.
28:04
Speaker 1: We're teaching an accountability not just by the words, but
28:07
Speaker 1: by the actual actions. Well you know that's what these
28:12
Speaker 1: because about accountability. And and I love the fact that
28:17
Speaker 1: there's a great clothes we can we just I can't
28:20
Speaker 1: in the interview better than what you just said, because
28:23
Speaker 1: you scream out the world communicate me to communicate, communicate,
28:26
Speaker 1: but also should be screamed out the accountability, accountability, accountability,
28:30
Speaker 1: and you should be screamed out if you're gonna bring
28:32
Speaker 1: children into this world accountability, accountability as well as communicate, communicate,
28:37
Speaker 1: share responsibility. This book is a beautiful book. I want
28:41
Speaker 1: to thank you for allowing me to read it. I
28:44
Speaker 1: want to thank you for allowing me to share my
28:46
Speaker 1: life into your book. Because you poured into me words
28:50
Speaker 1: I was able to pour back in conversation. A brilliant
28:53
Speaker 1: piece of work. Thank you and God bless you. Okay,
28:57
Speaker 1: so well, I just want to say mean from you
29:00
Speaker 1: that means the world to us. Now this is you know,
29:04
Speaker 1: you know I am where I am and um and
29:06
Speaker 1: people tell me I'm a straight shooter, and I don't.
29:09
Speaker 1: I don't have time to tell people a lie. But
29:12
Speaker 1: when I read the truth and I'm able to share
29:15
Speaker 1: it like this, and I've never my wife hid his interview.
29:19
Speaker 1: She should tell you he's never talked like this on
29:21
Speaker 1: the radio to nobody. Thank you so much, thank you,
29:26
Speaker 1: because she's just like you like and you know you
29:28
Speaker 1: said you in the book and said you didn't do
29:30
Speaker 1: social media. One part that's like you can't find a
29:32
Speaker 1: picture of her nowhere, okay, and so but I'm gonna
29:37
Speaker 1: do my best and do what I do here or
29:38
Speaker 1: thank you for the time again. You guys are fantastic.
29:41
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on. Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Wonderful.
29:45
Speaker 1: Thanks for having us about, they say, we'll be right
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Speaker 1: of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald. This week, I said that
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Speaker 1: the time to appreciate where you are. You gotta keep
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Speaker 1: you and keep it moving but you know what I've
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Speaker 1: been thinking about a lot ristaurant lately, just the need
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Speaker 1: to sit still for a minute and to appreciate who
30:17
Speaker 1: you are right now in the moment. And it's not
30:19
Speaker 1: about I mean complacent. It's about taking stock and showing
30:24
Speaker 1: yourself appreciation right for what you've a published and then
30:28
Speaker 1: using that to propel you to the next stage, because
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Speaker 1: a lot of times, like you said, we'll go go, go,
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Speaker 1: go go, that we don't stop to really recognize where
30:36
Speaker 1: we've come from, where we are in the moment, and
30:39
Speaker 1: how we can take all of that experience, knowledge, know
30:43
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Speaker 1: My guests on Moneyment says master Class feature guess is
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Speaker 1: today as a therapist turned heart healthy food entrepreneur, are
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Speaker 1: shown your Scott. We're shouting the spotlight on her St
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Speaker 1: Marie Salad Dressing Company so others can learn more about
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Speaker 1: her heart healthy and delicious products handcrafted from her very
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Speaker 1: own kitchen that is saving lives. She's based in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Their products are Vegan Healthart, heart Healthy, low sodium, dairy free,
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Speaker 1: gluten free, and Delicious Dressing, marinades and sauces are shown.
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Speaker 1: Your s good never intended to make history by creating
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Speaker 1: something to help people suffer from suffering from such a
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Speaker 1: preventable disease, heart disease. It's affecting black people and women
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Speaker 1: by astounding numbers. Please welcome to money making Conversations masterclass
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Speaker 1: are shown Your Scott. How you know what, Miss Scott,
31:48
Speaker 1: I'm great, Thank you, thank you for having me reshin. Well,
31:51
Speaker 1: let me just because we're talking about heart disease. I
31:53
Speaker 1: remember you know that it's a silent killer. They always
31:58
Speaker 1: say heart disease. He's facts, everybody, you know. I'm not
32:01
Speaker 1: trying to turn this into a dog show because I
32:03
Speaker 1: want to talk about, you know, her salad dressing and
32:06
Speaker 1: she's an entrepreneur and how she's she's trying to grow
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Speaker 1: her brand and she and her brand is tied to
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Speaker 1: salad dressing, but she's figured out a way to not
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Speaker 1: only serve a great product, but also serve a great
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Speaker 1: product and how that can also help you live longer.
32:19
Speaker 1: Heart disease, here's a fact, is the leading cause of
32:23
Speaker 1: death for men, women, and people of most racial and
32:26
Speaker 1: ethnic groups in the United States. One person dies every
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Speaker 1: thirty six seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease,
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Speaker 1: about a hundred and about six hundred and fifty nine thousand.
32:39
Speaker 1: Let's get that democratic About six hundred and people in
32:43
Speaker 1: the United States die from heart disease each year. That's
32:47
Speaker 1: one and mber four deaths. I'm making this statement. Was
32:52
Speaker 1: something personal motivated you, that motivated you to create this
32:56
Speaker 1: line of salad dressing? Yeah, absolutely, losing my mom when
33:02
Speaker 1: I was fifteen and feeling helpless. I felt helpless in
33:06
Speaker 1: that moment um. You know, she complained she was normal
33:09
Speaker 1: that day, totally normal, normal activity, cooking during the usual
33:14
Speaker 1: household tourists, and that evening she was just like, I
33:17
Speaker 1: need some air. She didn't know what it was, but
33:19
Speaker 1: she couldn't breathe. And then all of a sudden she
33:21
Speaker 1: collapsed and said, you know, the last thing she said
33:25
Speaker 1: would make something of yourself. And that was the last
33:27
Speaker 1: time I saw her and heard from her. So yeah,
33:32
Speaker 1: now that that impacted me, and a it was a
33:34
Speaker 1: negative thing that impacted me in a positive way. Right
33:38
Speaker 1: because you didn't know. And and when did you find
33:41
Speaker 1: out what you know, the exact reason for her death?
33:45
Speaker 1: And how did that affect you? Because you had to
33:48
Speaker 1: It was an educational period you had to go through
33:50
Speaker 1: to know it wasn't your fault. It was something that
33:54
Speaker 1: you know, somebody, some people said the word God's will
33:57
Speaker 1: or her time. And you know there's a lot of
33:58
Speaker 1: cliches come out when people die unexpectedly. And so how
34:02
Speaker 1: did that whole period of a guilt, frustration, sadness um
34:08
Speaker 1: manifests itself until you being an entrepreneur who has an
34:11
Speaker 1: award winning sala addressing right now and Marinate talks, Well,
34:15
Speaker 1: it really it changed me. You know, the sudden impact
34:19
Speaker 1: of losing her changed me. You know, it was eye
34:21
Speaker 1: opening and it was just something that made me realize, like, wow,
34:25
Speaker 1: there's something you know that I need to do. You know,
34:28
Speaker 1: I need to make something of myself. Number one. That's
34:30
Speaker 1: what she said. So at that moment, I took nothing
34:33
Speaker 1: for granted, like everything was intentional, even finishing high school
34:38
Speaker 1: in three years. Games were over and so you know,
34:41
Speaker 1: being helpless in that moment, I felt like I needed
34:44
Speaker 1: to be in healthcare. So I looked into becoming a nurse.
34:47
Speaker 1: That wasn't it. And so I found therapy and that's
34:51
Speaker 1: that's where I found my need to help other people.
34:54
Speaker 1: I love. I love what nursing wouldn't it? Nursing wouldn't Why? Why?
35:00
Speaker 1: Why why not nursing? You know, because you said it's
35:02
Speaker 1: so quick. That wasn't nursing With extremely it's not as
35:08
Speaker 1: easy as it looks. You know. Well, you know a
35:12
Speaker 1: lot of people say, you know, like I, I would
35:14
Speaker 1: love to be a doctor, but I'm not the person
35:17
Speaker 1: you won't cut on you, okay, because I just don't
35:20
Speaker 1: have that. You know. It's it's like it's it's a
35:23
Speaker 1: it's a couple of things I could not do in life.
35:25
Speaker 1: You know I would want to do it. One, it's
35:27
Speaker 1: being a pilot. You don't want me landing your planes.
35:30
Speaker 1: It's something about coming in and holding it steady. And
35:35
Speaker 1: a surgeon. You know, I could probably be adentist, but
35:38
Speaker 1: I'm sure sure a couple of cavities would run me off.
35:40
Speaker 1: You know. Oh yeah, it's pretty So you went into therapy.
35:46
Speaker 1: When you say therapy has a broad meaning there what
35:49
Speaker 1: what type of therapy did you go into? I went
35:52
Speaker 1: into with the you know, physical occupational therapy license occupational
35:57
Speaker 1: therapists and um, so I I'm very creative in that aspect.
36:02
Speaker 1: That's why I am an entrepreneur. But I love to
36:03
Speaker 1: help people too, so that fit right into what I
36:06
Speaker 1: needed to do, you know, because occupational therapy is usually
36:10
Speaker 1: a creativity to help people with deficits, you know what
36:13
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Rather it's mental, Rather it's physical. Rather it's
36:18
Speaker 1: you know, anything you can really help the kids with
36:21
Speaker 1: autism and special needs. It's so many different aspects that
36:25
Speaker 1: occupational therapy working. So yes, I found my love there.
36:29
Speaker 1: You know, my my mother, my mother in law and
36:32
Speaker 1: suster law are registered nurses and then used to always
36:34
Speaker 1: complain about their jobs, right and well, you know, an
36:38
Speaker 1: interesting thing about it is that when I hear this
36:41
Speaker 1: conversation that you've given and thank you for calling on
36:43
Speaker 1: the show, money making conversation is that you know, when
36:48
Speaker 1: you start talking about salad dressing and you hear the
36:50
Speaker 1: word because everybody wants your salad dressing to be great
36:53
Speaker 1: and good, and we're gonna talk about them any because
36:55
Speaker 1: I don't want to cross into this break because I
36:57
Speaker 1: want to talk about how you got on the shelves
36:59
Speaker 1: and how this whole. But when you're talking about words,
37:01
Speaker 1: these are the words that run people away when they
37:04
Speaker 1: hear them that in their mind it doesn't taste good
37:07
Speaker 1: because we're so mentally, I'm talking about the racial African
37:11
Speaker 1: American community especially, they're hear words like vegan, dairy free,
37:17
Speaker 1: low sodium, gluten free. That's not gonna taste good. You know,
37:24
Speaker 1: Am I telling the truth? I promise you you are
37:29
Speaker 1: low sodium black people hanging up on you. I'm telling
37:32
Speaker 1: you right now. So we gots to have our salt. Okay,
37:35
Speaker 1: we used to have our salt. That is so true
37:39
Speaker 1: now that Scott so So tell everybody why too much
37:43
Speaker 1: salt is bad for you. Though supermuch salt is bad
37:47
Speaker 1: for you. From one, It swells you up inside, It
37:50
Speaker 1: increases I'm sorry, Noah, no, Noah, I'm sorry, guys, No,
37:56
Speaker 1: I want to talk. Okay. It increases the fagume in
38:00
Speaker 1: your blood vessel and the health which decreases the amount
38:03
Speaker 1: of your blood flow, you know, which increases your blood pressure.
38:07
Speaker 1: So that's that's, that's and that's where the silent killer
38:10
Speaker 1: comes in right that we're talking about you know, because
38:12
Speaker 1: you hear these statements all the time he was he
38:15
Speaker 1: looked so healthy to me. He was just you were laughing.
38:19
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, when you reminisced back to your mom's death,
38:23
Speaker 1: she was doing everyday towards she was just living life
38:26
Speaker 1: and then she said I can't breathe, I need to
38:29
Speaker 1: get some air, and she passed away. So so we
38:32
Speaker 1: can walk through life feeling good and ignore signs. Yep, yep.
38:39
Speaker 1: It's typically it's really like a gentle swelling that you
38:42
Speaker 1: don't really recognize, you know, and so they say, oh,
38:46
Speaker 1: you have five blood presure like I do. You know,
38:49
Speaker 1: you don't really feel it. It's a it's an internal
38:51
Speaker 1: gentle swelling that's coming from that sodium, you know what
38:54
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So you want to keep that sodium low.
38:57
Speaker 1: You want to also continue to keep moving because that
39:00
Speaker 1: helps to you know, it helps to provide the vasil dilation.
39:05
Speaker 1: At those days, just said a big word there. We're
39:07
Speaker 1: gonna go to break here and come back dilation. You know,
39:11
Speaker 1: I don't want to lose all your your listeners with
39:13
Speaker 1: these with deturn, I'm trying to keep them around. This guy.
39:16
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more money making conversations. Masterclass
39:20
Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return to money Making Conversations
39:27
Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. You know, I don't want to
39:30
Speaker 1: shy away from the reality of the The food is
39:34
Speaker 1: a good product. It's it's very popular, it's being sold online.
39:38
Speaker 1: But we have to say why it is also valuable
39:41
Speaker 1: to you as a health product. You know, like you know,
39:44
Speaker 1: people people recommend you know, they say take an aspion
39:47
Speaker 1: day keeping. You know people say that, and you know,
39:49
Speaker 1: I always keep a cough dropping my my cabinet at home.
39:53
Speaker 1: With my throat feels a little sore, I pop a
39:55
Speaker 1: cough drop in a minute. I always tell people I'm
39:57
Speaker 1: not gonna wait till I get sick. I feel kind
39:59
Speaker 1: of like it's coming. I call that prevented. And so
40:02
Speaker 1: I look at what you when I want to reading
40:04
Speaker 1: about your product. When I hear these terms about you know,
40:08
Speaker 1: this is something that you didn't You create it, but
40:10
Speaker 1: you didn't intend to fully understand the impact it will
40:13
Speaker 1: have on people. I'm sure you're getting a lot of
40:15
Speaker 1: testimonials about how how the food your salary dressing is
40:19
Speaker 1: impacting people's lives. Let's talk about that. Absolutely. Yes, I
40:24
Speaker 1: get pictures from customers all the time, and then you
40:27
Speaker 1: know it's just um, it's inspiring. Its actually what keeps
40:31
Speaker 1: me going. You know, for people to um give me
40:33
Speaker 1: the feedback of why they like it, how they like it,
40:36
Speaker 1: and how they're using it and how it's benefiting them. Um.
40:39
Speaker 1: So that's it lets me know that the whole purpose
40:42
Speaker 1: is being you know, it's being you know, created here
40:45
Speaker 1: because um that I created it for people, not really
40:48
Speaker 1: for myself. I do use the product and I love it,
40:51
Speaker 1: but I really created it for others to benefit off
40:53
Speaker 1: of it. And like when my mom passed, I didn't
40:56
Speaker 1: know that it was the number one killer. Like that's
40:58
Speaker 1: it's not talked about enough. You know, Um, it's the
41:02
Speaker 1: number one killer. Even despite COVID, it's still the number
41:04
Speaker 1: one killer. Every year, they're like so many new diagnosis
41:10
Speaker 1: one point five million new diagnosis. Is the cardiovascular disease
41:14
Speaker 1: related elements. That's that's that's that's crazy, And a lot
41:17
Speaker 1: of it is because of lack of education. People don't
41:20
Speaker 1: realize that they can have good food that tastes delicious
41:24
Speaker 1: without all that junk in there. You know. Um, we
41:27
Speaker 1: have a lot of products on the shelf that are
41:29
Speaker 1: seal addressing in the marinated are loaded and chemicals loaded. Stuff.
41:33
Speaker 1: That shocked me that I didn't even know when I
41:35
Speaker 1: started the product that that stuff was in there, like
41:38
Speaker 1: stuff you can pronounce stuff. They using grass fertilizer. But
41:41
Speaker 1: yet we wonder why all the dialysis centers are popping
41:43
Speaker 1: up in our community. Why is that no one's really
41:46
Speaker 1: talking about what we need to have in our diets
41:49
Speaker 1: each and every day to stay healthy. You know what
41:51
Speaker 1: we need to be eating each and every day to
41:55
Speaker 1: keep our bood pressure and ta chack. I'm one of
41:58
Speaker 1: those bad people. I'm not gonna. I you can lie
42:02
Speaker 1: me up. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna sit on
42:04
Speaker 1: this show like I'm a saint. Now you know, I
42:07
Speaker 1: gotta admit I'm one of those people that eating that.
42:11
Speaker 1: Like you said, some ingredients you can't evennounce the words.
42:14
Speaker 1: That's me. I look, I've never I would tell you this, Mscott.
42:19
Speaker 1: I've never looked at the ball, pick up the bottler,
42:21
Speaker 1: looked at the back, I looked the front. If the
42:24
Speaker 1: color is right, I said, it's been a great I
42:26
Speaker 1: shaked it. I shake the salad dressing and go. It
42:30
Speaker 1: moves in the bottle pretty good or I heard that
42:32
Speaker 1: name or that brand. I'm I'm it's it's in my
42:35
Speaker 1: it's in my basket. I've never turned to the round
42:37
Speaker 1: here with okay, I totally get it, and you know what,
42:43
Speaker 1: and it's okay because that's what most people are doing.
42:46
Speaker 1: And that's why, that's why you're on Money Making Conversation,
42:50
Speaker 1: Master Glass. That's that's gonna tell the truth. I have
42:53
Speaker 1: to bring up somebody who can slap me in my
42:56
Speaker 1: forehead and said, stopped. I'm here to stop the madness here. Now,
43:01
Speaker 1: how did you create this product? Let's let's talk about
43:03
Speaker 1: the journey. Let's talk about your dream. We talked about
43:06
Speaker 1: the sadness, you talked about the inspiration. How did you
43:09
Speaker 1: create this product? And who helped you? You know, I know,
43:12
Speaker 1: you know we all started all in vinegar based on
43:15
Speaker 1: different things. That the vinegrad is like the number one
43:17
Speaker 1: if you don't how to make it a salary dressing,
43:19
Speaker 1: all in vinegrad exactly, that's it. Yeah. But my mom,
43:24
Speaker 1: my mom was a young lady and had a huge family.
43:27
Speaker 1: I come from a big family. To him one of fourteen,
43:29
Speaker 1: I'm actually done the thirteen of fourteen from the same
43:32
Speaker 1: my dad. So my mom cooked every day every day.
43:34
Speaker 1: She made these healthy. They weren't healthy home cooked meals
43:37
Speaker 1: that were delicious, so her products. Or I would take
43:40
Speaker 1: them to work, like the salads. I would take them
43:42
Speaker 1: to work, and the co workers love product. Like I
43:46
Speaker 1: was a salad girl. Like I had to bring that
43:48
Speaker 1: to every function we had. They wouldn't let me leave.
43:51
Speaker 1: Was like I heard stuff over like, don't letter leave
43:54
Speaker 1: until we get the recipes something pretty much my mom recipes.
43:58
Speaker 1: I just made them hard healthy recipes from the home
44:01
Speaker 1: cooked mills that we would have every day. I made
44:03
Speaker 1: them hard, healthy and made them, you know, delicious. You
44:07
Speaker 1: know I wanted them to still taste good, because no
44:10
Speaker 1: one wants to eat a healthy product that doesn't taste
44:12
Speaker 1: good consistently. You know absolutely that. That's why I mentioned
44:16
Speaker 1: that because of the fact that we tend to run,
44:19
Speaker 1: and we I include we meeting Rashan McDonald, tend to
44:23
Speaker 1: run for things that we feel doesn't taste right or
44:27
Speaker 1: not doesn't taste it doesn't have a taste. We grew up,
44:31
Speaker 1: we grew up to know or we're used to eating,
44:34
Speaker 1: and we rejected immediately, don't even give it a shot.
44:38
Speaker 1: So so, but you have a brand. You know, how
44:41
Speaker 1: did you start mixing the right ingredients? I guess I
44:43
Speaker 1: want to know you know because you I'm assuming you
44:45
Speaker 1: started in your home kitchen. Correct, Yes, well, the product
44:49
Speaker 1: the recipes are my mom's. I just made them hard healthy,
44:52
Speaker 1: which Okay, I took the bad stuff out and put
44:56
Speaker 1: good stuff in. Okay, let me ask you this what
45:00
Speaker 1: what would you consider the bad stuff you took out?
45:02
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying it bad in a bad way.
45:05
Speaker 1: We're trying to turn a meal that's really good into
45:09
Speaker 1: a healthy product, right absolutely. Ye, Okay, So we know
45:13
Speaker 1: Lottle sodium, it probably had salt, and you turn that
45:16
Speaker 1: into what type of salt would you have used with
45:18
Speaker 1: this coach? Your salt or what do you do? You
45:21
Speaker 1: mineralized mineralized pin Himalayan s salt, which is beneficial to
45:25
Speaker 1: the body. It's not going to cause you. That's not more.
45:27
Speaker 1: That's not more than. That's not more. You know. You
45:33
Speaker 1: know I grew up on that little that little blue
45:35
Speaker 1: blue salt, right right, that's me. That's met You lost him,
45:48
Speaker 1: lay In. I'm gonna just say right now, you lost him. Alan.
45:57
Speaker 1: I love it, I love it, but no, I needs
46:01
Speaker 1: to be this is something that that needs to be
46:03
Speaker 1: on my table because of the fact that you're telling
46:05
Speaker 1: me Richard, your over sixty. You should look at your
46:09
Speaker 1: died differently, Okay, just because you get up and you
46:12
Speaker 1: you think you're looking fine in the mirror when you
46:14
Speaker 1: when you're looking at when you're leaving the house. So
46:18
Speaker 1: your your blood pressure, which I do go to the
46:20
Speaker 1: doctor twice a year. I do that. You know. You know,
46:23
Speaker 1: as you get older, you know you want to be
46:25
Speaker 1: you know, you start thinking about being God as you
46:27
Speaker 1: get older. Have on, Let's see how I can hold
46:30
Speaker 1: off this. It's just neat and so true. Yeah, that's
46:38
Speaker 1: the yeah, I mean, yeah, we do it. Sometimes has
46:41
Speaker 1: to say Okay, I gotta do better. You know, I
46:43
Speaker 1: gotta do that. And I'm not saying to say you
46:45
Speaker 1: don't have what you like every now and then, but
46:47
Speaker 1: on that normal, consistent, everyday basis, we gotta we gotta
46:50
Speaker 1: really start putting some you know, we gotta start like
46:53
Speaker 1: really being involved with what's going on and going into
46:56
Speaker 1: our bodies. You know what I'm saying. Now, you also
46:58
Speaker 1: have a marinade? Do you have a salad dressing? And
47:02
Speaker 1: because I think you know, I looked up because I
47:05
Speaker 1: knew it was coming to the show that I looked
47:06
Speaker 1: up some things you do. So these salad dressing is
47:09
Speaker 1: also can be put on sandwich. I used as a
47:12
Speaker 1: sandwich spread as well. Correct. Yes, it's like you know,
47:16
Speaker 1: people have sent me recipes with all kind of stuff
47:18
Speaker 1: they've done with them, but they are dressings and marinade
47:21
Speaker 1: like you can marinage your salmon, your shrimp, your chicken
47:25
Speaker 1: in them, and I mean just delicious and still add
47:28
Speaker 1: any additional like onion powder, garlic powder, if that's what
47:31
Speaker 1: you want, but it just really changes the flavor and
47:34
Speaker 1: makes it something delicious. And more importantly, when you're using ours,
47:37
Speaker 1: it doesn't have all those chemicals in it because see
47:39
Speaker 1: a lot of those chemicals and stuff they're using grass,
47:41
Speaker 1: fertilizer stuff like that, Like why is that even in food?
47:44
Speaker 1: You know? So that's one main important thing that you know,
47:48
Speaker 1: you don't want to just be pouring stuff on the
47:50
Speaker 1: you gonna make this beautiful salad. Now you've got all
47:53
Speaker 1: this stuff out of this dressing bottles, Like what are
47:55
Speaker 1: you doing? You know? And uh, I'm not fan, don't
47:58
Speaker 1: have ranch every now and the Okay, well I'm gonna
48:01
Speaker 1: tell you something I would tell you something. If you
48:04
Speaker 1: lived as long as I've had lived, then you've had
48:07
Speaker 1: ranch too much. Okay, let drive ranching just it's you
48:11
Speaker 1: reached you, you ranched out. Okay, it's time to look
48:14
Speaker 1: at it, look at your life. And you're eating habits
48:17
Speaker 1: from a different way. And that's what this episode is about.
48:19
Speaker 1: This reason I brought you on the show because I'm
48:22
Speaker 1: talking about being an entrepreneur. I'm talking about planning your life.
48:26
Speaker 1: But we're planning your life is also how you eat,
48:29
Speaker 1: and how you eat determined when you can have a
48:32
Speaker 1: good day. You know, we're just coming out of COVID.
48:34
Speaker 1: We saw that COVID impacted the minority community more than
48:38
Speaker 1: any other community. And what was it tied to high
48:41
Speaker 1: blood pressure, overweight, you know, poor eating habits, and so
48:47
Speaker 1: we were attacked the first by COVID and so and
48:52
Speaker 1: so I feel it's it's fortunate that now you've made
48:56
Speaker 1: something available that doesn't doesn't doesn't our palette to say, oh,
49:01
Speaker 1: this is not good, but this is something that people
49:04
Speaker 1: are now finding value. Not only a good food that
49:08
Speaker 1: you've created, a good salad dresser, meritage that you've created,
49:11
Speaker 1: but something they can enjoy talk about that absolutely. I
49:16
Speaker 1: I can't. Like, people don't want to leave the house,
49:18
Speaker 1: like when I would make it at home for family
49:21
Speaker 1: functions and they're like, I know you got that salad.
49:23
Speaker 1: That's apple peacon salad to day, you know, and you
49:29
Speaker 1: can switch it up. You know, different recipes are on
49:31
Speaker 1: our west side at s maries dot com, so you
49:33
Speaker 1: can you can get those recipes and switch them up
49:36
Speaker 1: any kind of way you like. But people literally like,
49:38
Speaker 1: I know you made my salad, right, I know that
49:44
Speaker 1: salid lady, I don't know. Oh, you're so enjoyable the interview.
49:50
Speaker 1: You know, I love the salad dupeen making Rashawn, Oh
49:54
Speaker 1: my god, you've been cutting up. Well, I've been ranched out.
49:59
Speaker 1: I'll just time for to change by eating habits. We're
50:01
Speaker 1: gonna be back for more. We're gonna talk about the
50:03
Speaker 1: different dressings that you've made, uh, your product line, I
50:07
Speaker 1: should say, but also just talk about how did you
50:09
Speaker 1: manage to get in stores and how people started discovering
50:12
Speaker 1: your product on the shelves, because that's the exciting part.
50:15
Speaker 1: Because we all have dreams. But when people started seeing
50:19
Speaker 1: your dream and started championing your dream, that's a different
50:22
Speaker 1: that's a different high. But it started somewhere, Miss God.
50:26
Speaker 1: In regards to the recipes with the foundation, you changed
50:30
Speaker 1: them up. I took some of the lot as you say,
50:33
Speaker 1: the word bad things out of the recipe and made
50:35
Speaker 1: them health conscious. Just use the word health conscious into
50:38
Speaker 1: the recipe, now you okay? It had what was that
50:43
Speaker 1: transition step to put it in a bottle and then
50:46
Speaker 1: take it to a store and then they put it
50:48
Speaker 1: on the shelf. Talk about that, right absolutely? So you
50:52
Speaker 1: know you have the recipe. We all have recipes, right,
50:55
Speaker 1: so you just create the recipe and then once you
50:58
Speaker 1: create the recipe, packagen is so important, you know, um,
51:03
Speaker 1: making sure whatever it is you're selling, if it's some bakery,
51:05
Speaker 1: if it's if it's uh potato chips, if it's stuff
51:10
Speaker 1: that goes and bottles, you want to make sure that
51:11
Speaker 1: you have it up to whatever it is. Your competition
51:15
Speaker 1: is you know, um, you know, So did you go
51:18
Speaker 1: in the store looking at your competition looking at their packaging?
51:22
Speaker 1: What were your idea to say? Okay, because I'm telling
51:26
Speaker 1: in the salad dressing world, it's it's it's a lot.
51:30
Speaker 1: I believe me. I go down that as like I said,
51:33
Speaker 1: I just look at the bottle that has the nice
51:35
Speaker 1: color on it or familiar brand name, and then I
51:39
Speaker 1: pick it up and I'm good. I cannot tell you
51:42
Speaker 1: why I bought it other than the fact that name
51:44
Speaker 1: sounds familiar. I think I've had that before, okay, and
51:49
Speaker 1: then I get them out not that and based on memory.
51:53
Speaker 1: So you're battling, you know, people who are tied to tradition,
51:58
Speaker 1: people are tied to not wanting to change. And also
52:02
Speaker 1: people don't experiment that much in the salads lane, so
52:07
Speaker 1: they speak to what they know and that's it, you know.
52:11
Speaker 1: And so going the brands, yeah, it's it's you got
52:14
Speaker 1: to really be involved intuitively, Like you have to do
52:19
Speaker 1: it on purpose. Like people they're so used to their
52:22
Speaker 1: brand that they've been buying for years when they come
52:24
Speaker 1: in the store. That's so they're just focused on getting
52:27
Speaker 1: what's on that list. You know. You have to creative
52:30
Speaker 1: ways to introduce them to your flavors, you know during
52:33
Speaker 1: the store promos. Okay, cool, let's let's stop right there.
52:35
Speaker 1: When you say creative ways to introduce them to your flavors,
52:38
Speaker 1: how did you do that? Um, we do a lot
52:41
Speaker 1: of store promos in store promos um. You know, we
52:45
Speaker 1: go out to community events. My passion is talking to
52:48
Speaker 1: people in the community because I like to educate with
52:51
Speaker 1: this product. Because that's why I was creating a memory
52:53
Speaker 1: of my mom who died of higher disease se Marie
52:55
Speaker 1: with my mom. So this product was created with a
52:58
Speaker 1: purpose to educate the communities about heart disease and um
53:03
Speaker 1: alternatives delicious alternatives, right and what you're what we're used to?
53:10
Speaker 1: Like you said, Rishon, yeah, no, no, no, let's let's
53:13
Speaker 1: slow everything down here. Okay, who did you tell this
53:17
Speaker 1: idea to just say, you know something, I think I
53:20
Speaker 1: can get into sally dressing business? And did they say
53:24
Speaker 1: go forward? And they went, girl, you crazy? What? What? What? What? What?
53:28
Speaker 1: What statement did you get at the box? Well, well, people,
53:33
Speaker 1: they harassed me for it. So I told my husband,
53:35
Speaker 1: I said, I need to do something meaningful with this.
53:38
Speaker 1: I need to do something meaningful with this. And you know,
53:41
Speaker 1: he knows I'm an entrepreneur of my heart, like I've
53:43
Speaker 1: done lots of stuff in the past, but he, you know,
53:46
Speaker 1: he understands my passion of losing my mom and stuff
53:48
Speaker 1: like that. So you know, he's like, okay, well we
53:50
Speaker 1: can just try it, you know. So when he gave
53:52
Speaker 1: me the green light, I said, let me just get
53:54
Speaker 1: the planning. You know, everything starts with the plan. So
53:57
Speaker 1: first and foremost, whatever it is you want to you
54:00
Speaker 1: want to write it out right, every step down. Look
54:02
Speaker 1: at your competition, make sure you have it all together.
54:06
Speaker 1: You know, find out the rules and regulations of that product.
54:09
Speaker 1: You know, because everything you may can't just be putting
54:12
Speaker 1: the stores. You know, being in Whole Foods is a
54:14
Speaker 1: big deal for us here. Um, Whole Foods has a
54:18
Speaker 1: whole separate list of standards. Like you, every product that
54:22
Speaker 1: you see and want can't be in Whole Foods. And um,
54:26
Speaker 1: so that landing and is a major you know, it's
54:29
Speaker 1: just like a major accomplishment. So how did you okay?
54:33
Speaker 1: Because you know, I don't want to miss these steps
54:35
Speaker 1: because you know you we know as major. You're an
54:38
Speaker 1: African American female. You know you're a therapist. You know
54:41
Speaker 1: you're not a you know you're not trained in and
54:44
Speaker 1: making salad dresses, seching for a living. You didn't get
54:47
Speaker 1: a recommendation letter from a competitor that make salad dress.
54:52
Speaker 1: I got this salad dressing. Did you do you have
54:54
Speaker 1: to give them a sample to taste, or you come
54:57
Speaker 1: in for a tasting session. How does that work? Yep,
55:00
Speaker 1: that's what happened. Whole Foods was opening in Chicago in
55:03
Speaker 1: a local community in Inglewood, and they were looking for
55:07
Speaker 1: entrepreneurs um and so you know, they was like, oh,
55:10
Speaker 1: you don't live in the area. No, you don't fit.
55:12
Speaker 1: So I guess they needed to meet a quota or something.
55:15
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, okay, God, if that's
55:16
Speaker 1: what you want, then I won't be there because they
55:18
Speaker 1: said no, you know. But then they called me back
55:20
Speaker 1: and I was like, this guy, you're funny, Okay, whatever,
55:27
Speaker 1: because I don't live in this zip code. Did you
55:29
Speaker 1: walk out there as a mattitude? I was like, I
55:32
Speaker 1: was like, okay, God, I yesterday't my time? You know,
55:38
Speaker 1: you did some funny. First of all, I enjoyed this interview.
55:41
Speaker 1: I haven't laughed as much a long time because I
55:44
Speaker 1: could just see you walk out of that mad as
55:45
Speaker 1: heck went home, says some fancy words to your husband
55:49
Speaker 1: about what you thought of Old Foods. Right, okay, how
55:54
Speaker 1: you are? And so they called you back. They called
55:59
Speaker 1: you back. They called me back for a family for
56:02
Speaker 1: a tasting. I went down to the corporate office, because
56:04
Speaker 1: they always start with the corporate if you want to
56:06
Speaker 1: get your producting doors and how many how many bottles
56:09
Speaker 1: did you take down there? So a couple of the
56:11
Speaker 1: throw at them. They said, no, I took a ready
56:15
Speaker 1: made salad and I had a couple of bottles, you know,
56:18
Speaker 1: the top ones that people love, and they were just
56:21
Speaker 1: extremely impressed when it was extreme and like we we've
56:24
Speaker 1: outsold all their major brands and we're still doing We're
56:29
Speaker 1: still doing that. And you know, being an African American one,
56:33
Speaker 1: I've received pushback, major pushback. But I'm gonna I'm just
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Speaker 1: not that I'm not cut from that cloth. That's gonna stop.
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Speaker 1: So I don't care. You can put me on the
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Speaker 1: bottom sholf. I'm gonna tell my people where the family yet,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna just crawling the store. I'm on the bottomshelf.
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Speaker 1: You seem so so yeah, Well, you know this is
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Speaker 1: a We're having a lot of fun and I'm enjoying
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Speaker 1: this interview with you. The beauty of your story. It
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Speaker 1: starts sad, but wow, it's proven to be a blessing
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Speaker 1: to so many people and and and you know, because
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Speaker 1: like it put you on the bottom shelf and then
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Speaker 1: you start going up sheelf shelves. When they came back
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Speaker 1: and told you, you know, people seem to like your
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Speaker 1: se Marie, what what did that? What did they ring to?
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Speaker 1: It's just like, you know, if you were a musical
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Speaker 1: artist you're driving and you hear your song on the radio,
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Speaker 1: that I think that'd be comparable to that. When you
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Speaker 1: got that call right from it's crazy like they were
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Speaker 1: like you all sold all the major brands we've had
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Speaker 1: for years and like you know, like the first month
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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So that was just like mind blowing.
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Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, people like this stuff. They really
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Speaker 1: like this. Okay, So the next step of question, I'm
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Speaker 1: sure my artists will go, Okay, what what will help
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Speaker 1: you to explain what is stopping you from going across
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Speaker 1: country and leaving the Chicago market because your product is
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Speaker 1: selling the world and that in the regional marketing. What
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Speaker 1: what's the next day we're looking. I'm open to investors,
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Speaker 1: you know, investors to help expand a brand because you know,
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Speaker 1: it's a multibillion dollar industry and I'm the only black
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Speaker 1: girl doing this and um, people love it. They love it,
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Speaker 1: so it's kind of like, I want to give people
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Speaker 1: something that's helping them. You know, it's not just a
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Speaker 1: product that's delicious and taste good. It helps people, you know. Um,
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Speaker 1: that's my that's my reason and my wife wanting to
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Speaker 1: do this. You know, because no fifteen year old or
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Speaker 1: anyone younger than me my sister was fourteen should have
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Speaker 1: to love their best friends to something they didn't even
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Speaker 1: know existed in their parents. You know what I'm saying.
58:42
Speaker 1: So you can't and you do ship out of state, correct,
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we ship nationwide. We shipped to every state
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Speaker 1: so far. We get repeat orders all the time. We
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Speaker 1: ship a lot in Atlanta, ship a lot in Texas, California.
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Speaker 1: You know, Tabitha Brown is a big support. She comes
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Speaker 1: to Chicago and she looks for us and hopeful that
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Speaker 1: just really do that blew my mind, right, it was beautiful.
59:07
Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's it's just been an amazing experience
59:11
Speaker 1: and something and like it took my husband bout WorldWind.
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Speaker 1: Like you know, he has the whole separate things of
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Speaker 1: what he loved to do, but he didn't expect for
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Speaker 1: it to do what it's doing now. So what's stopping
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Speaker 1: me is mainly you know, like I said, going into
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Speaker 1: other investing, if I had a great investor, would be great.
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Speaker 1: And you know, because of COVID shut down a lot
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Speaker 1: of UM manufactories and stuff like, that's what we have
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Speaker 1: to go out of state to find a better manufacturer.
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Speaker 1: So we're working on all those things. But those are
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Speaker 1: the those are just the only two things. Well, I'll
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Speaker 1: telling you something. Thank you for calling in. Moneyment comes
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Speaker 1: out of Chicago, can go online. Thank you. We're gonna talk.
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Speaker 1: So first of all, you made my heart as they
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Speaker 1: say stronger in his interview, I appreciate you. Stay safe, Okay,
59:57
Speaker 1: we talked soon. Thank you guys. God bless y'all. But
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