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Dyana Williams Full interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: She's often seen on on the popular TV one series
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Speaker 1: celebrity strategist. That's why she knows everybody who has coached
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Speaker 1: everyone from we All to t I. She is an
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Speaker 1: in demand speaker and CEO of influence entertained a beautiful website.
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Speaker 1: I'm driving people this webs I went to the the website,
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Speaker 1: got jealous, not only jealous because I'm beautiful to look,
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Speaker 1: but how beautiful you look? Going like, hey man, I
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Speaker 1: needed to work with her. Please, welcome to money making
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Speaker 1: conversations the mother of Black music, Mom Deanna Williams. So
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Speaker 1: thank you for that beautiful introduction. And you got me
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Speaker 1: over here, and I don't think come now, no, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the website. Now. You know got an
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Speaker 1: arms phone, they got that little great flash in the
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Speaker 1: big earing the jewelry. I'm like, this game is in entertainment,
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Speaker 1: refinement and communication because when people come on my show, Diana,
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Speaker 1: I do my research. I don't just like you know,
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Speaker 1: they'll send me like five the ten questions that go,
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Speaker 1: that's cool, that's cool. Let me let me find out
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Speaker 1: some more stuff. And so, so what you are a
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Speaker 1: branding expert, that's what you do. And so I always look,
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Speaker 1: you know, I always look at people and said, what
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Speaker 1: differently what they do? Like some people say they do
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Speaker 1: social media, that go to them and they have no followers.
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Speaker 1: I go, okay, okay, if they cannot building their brand,
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Speaker 1: how they're gonna build my brand? And so so if
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Speaker 1: you're an influenced person, if you're a branding expert and strategist,
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Speaker 1: and I go to your website and I go and
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Speaker 1: that's what I do. I go, Wow, this is hot,
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Speaker 1: and I just grow down, you know, just come on down.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely necessary to need for effective communication, you know, star
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Speaker 1: after star my board, Charlie Wilson on here, you know,
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Speaker 1: Alan Iver since she let you know, as a versa,
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Speaker 1: the roster that she deals with here and then she
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Speaker 1: come down here with her hand on, you know, hand
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Speaker 1: underneath her cheen a little you know, a little pensive
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Speaker 1: look of success. You know, you know, got the got
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Speaker 1: the empire state, building the aerial shot on the corporate roster,
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Speaker 1: letting you know she's not just dealing with talent. She
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Speaker 1: has fortune five hundred companies on her roster. And it's
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Speaker 1: just a beautiful thing that you're doing. Tell us about
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Speaker 1: this website before we start talking about anything else, because
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Speaker 1: I've walked everybody through this website participation. Did you have
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Speaker 1: involved in this, Diana, the floor is yours to talk
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Speaker 1: about your website like your website Influence Entertainment dot com. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it is. Thank you. I have to give credit to
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Speaker 1: like Star Media Group who designed it, and also my
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Speaker 1: VPS R Jenas Whiskey, who keeps it updated. And these
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Speaker 1: are people that I've had the good fortune of working
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Speaker 1: with over the past twenty six years. I've coached CEOs
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Speaker 1: of record companies. I've coached Kathy who's the CEO of
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Speaker 1: Urban One, tons of artists, athletes, business leaders, thought leaders,
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Speaker 1: and it is just my passion and it is what
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Speaker 1: it is the divine that I've been given. It's just
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Speaker 1: the blessing to be able to help other people recognize
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Speaker 1: their strengths and weaknesses. And in that process it's allowed
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Speaker 1: me to grow as a professional, as a mother, as
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Speaker 1: a woman, as a member of my community. So I
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Speaker 1: love what I do, and I do what I love
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Speaker 1: well you know, it's really important because you know, we
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Speaker 1: we met through an interview that we met again at
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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles where you was being honored UM and
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Speaker 1: the Legends several years ago, and it's one of the says,
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Speaker 1: I keep it on. Mine's one up there with my
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Speaker 1: EMI is up there with my My Image awards is
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Speaker 1: up there, Withever award I got, I got my legend
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Speaker 1: right in the middle, because they're beautiful plactic to give
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Speaker 1: you beautiful you know when you when somebody honors you
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Speaker 1: like that, Dianna, tell me, tell the Walkers do the
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Speaker 1: steps of that, because that's a that's about a legacy,
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Speaker 1: that's about trust, that's about relationships. That's why people are
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Speaker 1: saying you your accomplished things in life in the entertainment world.
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Speaker 1: That's unique. And more importantly, you get back, may not
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Speaker 1: always be financially, but you get back because you don't
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Speaker 1: just ignore other people's you know, flaws, other people's missteps.
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Speaker 1: You're there to support and mentor talk to us about that.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely well, I'm sure you can speak volumes to this.
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Speaker 1: With the awards that you decited, your multiple Emmys and
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Speaker 1: double ad tongues of awards, you don't do the work
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Speaker 1: or awards. However, when your peers and your community acknowledges
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Speaker 1: that you have been super serving, you feel good. The
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Speaker 1: events that you're referring to is the Living Legends Foundation.
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Speaker 1: In October and Los Angeles, I had the esteem honor
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Speaker 1: of receiving a Lifetime Achievement award. I've been working in
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Speaker 1: the music industry since nineteen seventy three. Is when I
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Speaker 1: first got my check on an ongoing basis. I was
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Speaker 1: on the air at ninety six point three. W h
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Speaker 1: you are. I'm sure you're very familiar with one of
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Speaker 1: mine as well. My gave me my start, Bob Nighthawk
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Speaker 1: Perry uh and so you you when you get those
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Speaker 1: kinds of recognition, you just feel good. It's something that
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Speaker 1: you can go like my mother, my children, my family
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Speaker 1: and friends and say your support of me. My endeavors
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Speaker 1: my time away from you, traveling to be with my clients,
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Speaker 1: going all over the world. This is this is the
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Speaker 1: sum total, this is the bottom line. So you know,
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Speaker 1: like you, I have many, many awards, but the greatest
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Speaker 1: award for me is the law recognition of love. And
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Speaker 1: I get from you know, and I have to agree
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Speaker 1: with that because of the fact that I always tell people,
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Speaker 1: you know, you might not like me, but as long
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Speaker 1: as you respect me, we're good. Because I fight. I
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Speaker 1: fight for respect. I fight for respect, fight for respect
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Speaker 1: for my client or any product I represent. It's about
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Speaker 1: respect because in the end, wanted to be like, it's cool,
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Speaker 1: that's all right, But I don't think that. I don't
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Speaker 1: think your left and legacy can be built on wanting
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Speaker 1: to be liked. But your legacy can be built on
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Speaker 1: what you accomplished and how much people respect you. And
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Speaker 1: that's and that's what I'm leaning towards. This conversation about
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Speaker 1: all the people who have come to you for advice.
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Speaker 1: Welcomes through that step because you know, I've had my
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Speaker 1: success with a limited amount of people. I know a
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Speaker 1: lot of people, and a lot of people have I've
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Speaker 1: not managed them or put them on my roster, and
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Speaker 1: they come to me advice. I get taxed, I get
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Speaker 1: phone calls, I get emails. But you they've come to
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Speaker 1: you and say, hey, you are the one. How did
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Speaker 1: you make the transition? Role? MM? Excellent questions. So I
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Speaker 1: started in the industry as the broadcaster radio just referenced
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Speaker 1: point w h R where I started as Ebony moon
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Speaker 1: Beans was my radio handle, and I did that. I
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Speaker 1: then left d C went to New York, which is
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Speaker 1: my hometown. I grew up in the Bronx and Harlem
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Speaker 1: in Manhattan, and Frankie Crocker, who was then the Dean
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Speaker 1: of Black Radio, hired me a w BLS, which remains
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Speaker 1: much like w h OUR heritage station in New York
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Speaker 1: and a voice the Clarion voice in the black community
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Speaker 1: and other communities as well. Uh Skip Dillard is the
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Speaker 1: current program director. But anyway, yes, he's I love him.
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Speaker 1: He has just he's just such a he's just so
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Speaker 1: accomplished and wonderful. But I one day I was I
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Speaker 1: took a break from radio and I started managing an
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Speaker 1: artist by the name of Gary Taylor. He's a songwriter,
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Speaker 1: producer who wrote Just gets Better with Time for the Whispers,
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Speaker 1: he wrote Good Love for Nita Baker. Just a very
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Speaker 1: talented writer, producer, artist, and Sharon Haywood was the head
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Speaker 1: of the record label at that point, the Black Music
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Speaker 1: Division just me to lunch one ngage. She said, you know, Dianna,
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Speaker 1: I've been watching you. Artists seemed to like you, and
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Speaker 1: you seem to be able to communicate with them, you
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Speaker 1: should do artist development, and I was like, really, Sharon,
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Speaker 1: I had never considered it. And then at that point
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Speaker 1: I just started doing explored, you know, Sharon Saronywood, Sharon
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Speaker 1: wo suggested. But my first job came from Jimmy Damn
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Speaker 1: and Terry Lewis's record label, and I coached a group
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Speaker 1: named Solo and from that point, Sean, my phone has
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Speaker 1: not stopped ringing. I have never advertised I do not solicit,
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Speaker 1: and after Solo, I worked with Vertical Whole, Angie Stones Group,
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Speaker 1: and I've worked with D'Angelo who to this day is
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Speaker 1: my closest confidante, best friend, you know, beloved, cared for
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Speaker 1: him deeply, and like I said, the phone and just
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Speaker 1: had to stop ringing. So I'm typically hired by publicists, managers.
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Speaker 1: In some cases I've had artists um and then again,
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Speaker 1: as we discussed the outside of our conversation, I've worked
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Speaker 1: with athletes and work with Roy Jones Jr. When he
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Speaker 1: was heavyweight boxer. So it's been a mix of people
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Speaker 1: that I've had the opportunity to work with, and I
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Speaker 1: discovered that it was a passion I relish seeing people
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Speaker 1: accomplish their dreams I would really do, and I love that.
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Speaker 1: I love to see people be successful. It's really it's
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Speaker 1: really interesting because you're telling the truth. And I will
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Speaker 1: just tell you if you ever try to get in
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Speaker 1: this business and as a as a a person who
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Speaker 1: sits down there, all these individuals want is the truth.
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Speaker 1: But how you tell them the truth is the key,
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Speaker 1: but also also the fact that you have to be
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Speaker 1: able to tell them sometimes. Actually how it is because
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Speaker 1: and I talked to him all the time. I said,
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Speaker 1: when you were represented about William Mars or I C
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Speaker 1: M or c A. They got ten thousand clients over there,
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Speaker 1: and all of my hustling from anywhere from five to
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Speaker 1: ten percent commission. So it means that you're just a
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Speaker 1: car note, the house note or whatever. Now she'll tell
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Speaker 1: you herself. She's on the end. When when after the
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Speaker 1: deal is done, they're talking to you, Dianna, they're talking
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Speaker 1: about Sean McDonald. The agents. You know where to be fine,
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Speaker 1: they know where to be found. Then you know when
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Speaker 1: they frustrated when things don't go right, they come to
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Speaker 1: After the agent doesn't talk to you, they come talk
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Speaker 1: to you. They come talk to me. And that part
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Speaker 1: of the conversation really grows you as an individual. And
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Speaker 1: as we reflect on what we've done in our lives,
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Speaker 1: what do you think you've taken the way the most
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Speaker 1: from giving people advice? What what nuggets have you brought
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Speaker 1: back into your life? I guess the question I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to ask you. Dianna. Absolutely but you know you're absolutely right,
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Speaker 1: because every client that I work with I glean, I learned,
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Speaker 1: I applied to my own situation. I take away some
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Speaker 1: of the values and the the lessons. Last night, I
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Speaker 1: worked with a gospel inspirational gospel artist and I told
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Speaker 1: her at the conclusion of our session, I was like,
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Speaker 1: now you've inviused me. I've been lifted and inspired by
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Speaker 1: what you have shared with me in your journey. And
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Speaker 1: so it is constantly a learning process for me. I
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Speaker 1: am not empirical. I do not know at all, but
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Speaker 1: I do know a lot. I was a college dropout.
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Speaker 1: I went back to Temple University, got my degree, and
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Speaker 1: it strengthened me as an artist development media coach. So
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Speaker 1: solo person. If yeah, I really um, I think all
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Speaker 1: hours in the day, learn to use every hour. I'm
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Speaker 1: that type of person. I go to bed and actually
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Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do when I get up. That
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Speaker 1: allows me motivation to get up. And so when she
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Speaker 1: interviewed me, I would say, I would call this industry love.
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Speaker 1: I just fell in love with her energy, her vision,
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Speaker 1: or she's accomplished because she's so humble, and that's that's
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Speaker 1: a quality that I have. You know a lot of people,
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Speaker 1: you've done a lot reshawn You don't you don't hype
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Speaker 1: yourself enough well, I don't have time to be hyping
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Speaker 1: myself because I have so many other things I want
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Speaker 1: to do. That's a that's an accomplishment I have achieved now.
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Speaker 1: One of the you're not leading with the ego. That's
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Speaker 1: what I would say that you're not leading with your ego.
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Speaker 1: When you with special people, they give your extra terminology
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Speaker 1: to carry you forward. You know that's in there. You
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Speaker 1: know that's in the book. Now, I don't leave im ego.
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Speaker 1: I don't need to tell people my resume. I don't
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Speaker 1: need to go to the mountaintop and tell people I'm
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Speaker 1: standing on top. They can see me exactly. Black Music Mom, Okay,
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Speaker 1: when did this start? Tune? Black Music Month was started
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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine. It was actually June seventh, nine
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Speaker 1: seventy nine on the Law and of the White House.
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Speaker 1: Then President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalind hosted oh
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Speaker 1: proximately three hundred music industry leaders. There was a concert
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Speaker 1: of performance with Chuck Berry, uh Sarah Powell, who was
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Speaker 1: a classical singer. Dexter Onesell led the MFS. The Orchestra
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Speaker 1: um Eblen Champagne King performed as well. It was a
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Speaker 1: great day and it was a picnic on the lawn
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Speaker 1: with tons of very accomplished black folks and so that
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Speaker 1: was the very first celebration, and it was done at
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Speaker 1: the encouragement of the then Black Music Association that was
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Speaker 1: founded by my ex Kenny Gamble, who's one of the
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Speaker 1: architects of the Sound of Philadelphia Rock and Roll Hall
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Speaker 1: of Famer, multiple Grammy Award winner. So we went that
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Speaker 1: day and it was a beautiful events that celebrated not
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Speaker 1: just Black artistry but American music, which is why it
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Speaker 1: is important for us to celebrate June Black Music Month
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Speaker 1: as an opportunity for us. Are concentrated months for us
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Speaker 1: to recognize the contributions of people in the past, this
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Speaker 1: generation of music makers, and the ones to come. And
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Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about the artist on the mic.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the songwriters, the producers, the engineers, the
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Speaker 1: people in the pressing plants, folks who work at Apple Music, Spotify, Title,
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Speaker 1: the streaming digital services, any and everybody involved in the
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Speaker 1: production of music and its consumption. Rashan, I'm talking also
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Speaker 1: about consumers, so anybody who loves black music. And I
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Speaker 1: might add that while it's a concentrated period of time
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Speaker 1: for us to celebrate American music made by black folks.
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Speaker 1: It's something that we celebrate every single day of our lives,
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Speaker 1: starting when you heard your mama's heart beat. Absolutely started
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Speaker 1: then and it will continue until your very last breath. Really,
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Speaker 1: because we consume huge quantities of music. Absolutely, It's really
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Speaker 1: interesting because um uh, music plays such an important role
20:16
Speaker 1: in my life. You know, I'm fortunate uh to understand
20:21
Speaker 1: music of the sixties and seventies and eighties, and each
20:23
Speaker 1: decade is a transition. You know, went from the sixties
20:27
Speaker 1: that pop sound of the Temptations, four tops behind the
20:30
Speaker 1: Ross that the music shifted us, shifted us, and then
20:34
Speaker 1: the funk landed, you know, in the seventies, the funk landed.
20:38
Speaker 1: Then I went into the you know, the disco, and
20:40
Speaker 1: then the then then the New Edition drove me out
20:43
Speaker 1: of the pulled me out of it and pulled me
20:46
Speaker 1: out of this, you know, and uh and then and
20:49
Speaker 1: then we came into with Steve and I started doing
20:52
Speaker 1: radio in two thousand, you know where you know fusion,
20:55
Speaker 1: you know Jill Scott, you know, Kim, Alicia Keys, Uh,
21:00
Speaker 1: Charlie Wilson came back and the rapp of course was running, running,
21:05
Speaker 1: rampant all that time. But I was, I was. I
21:07
Speaker 1: was driving the other day and I have this like
21:10
Speaker 1: a like two songs I have on Pandora. I was
21:14
Speaker 1: just my love playlist, and I realized that there are
21:18
Speaker 1: songs that I relate to that and I think about
21:22
Speaker 1: the person that I'm with or experiencing that moment with,
21:26
Speaker 1: and I go, you know something, I'll bet you this
21:28
Speaker 1: song doesn't even mean that much to that person that
21:31
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about when I hear this song. And that's
21:34
Speaker 1: what music is to me and to everybody. It's that
21:38
Speaker 1: moment that's important to you when you hear it again
21:42
Speaker 1: or you heard it for the very first time. It
21:44
Speaker 1: may not be important to you, Diana, that same song,
21:47
Speaker 1: and we may be and I may be thinking about
21:49
Speaker 1: you in that song. I may think you thinking about
21:51
Speaker 1: that when we were dancing, what we were eating, or
21:54
Speaker 1: club we were in. But that's when I think about
21:57
Speaker 1: black music, Mont That's what I think about. I think
22:00
Speaker 1: about the motion. The memory is important to me. You know,
22:05
Speaker 1: it might not be important to you, but the music
22:08
Speaker 1: is important to everybody because everybody has that same moment
22:12
Speaker 1: tied to some song. That's what right well, here we go.
22:19
Speaker 1: So there you go. So you're talking about the feeling,
22:23
Speaker 1: kinetic energy that music gives you. It has been proven
22:26
Speaker 1: through myriads of scientific studies that music, when it's processed
22:31
Speaker 1: by the brain, releases certain chemicals that make us feel good.
22:35
Speaker 1: The music, it is a healing force. I mean, I'd
22:39
Speaker 1: rather listen to like you were talking about, the Temptations,
22:42
Speaker 1: one of my all time favorite groups, rather than take
22:44
Speaker 1: some medicine if I'm feeling down, I'd rather get up
22:48
Speaker 1: and dance because it's going to release endorphins in my body.
22:52
Speaker 1: So music is one a universal language too. It is
22:56
Speaker 1: a healing force provided to us by Almighty God. And
22:59
Speaker 1: I was affect what everybody believes that that's what I believe.
23:03
Speaker 1: And the other thing that we need to discuss is
23:06
Speaker 1: that it is one of America's greatest financial exports around
23:11
Speaker 1: the planet, to the tune of not the hundreds, thousands, millions,
23:18
Speaker 1: but billions and many billions of dollars. Last year, the
23:22
Speaker 1: music industry generated approximately twenty billion dollars. And I need
23:27
Speaker 1: to go on the record here now and say much
23:30
Speaker 1: of that generated by black people. We don't get to
23:34
Speaker 1: participate in the ownership as much as we ought to.
23:39
Speaker 1: But we are generating billions of dollars from just the
23:43
Speaker 1: sales of music. And then on top of that, our
23:46
Speaker 1: music influences culture. Look at it across the board commercials.
23:51
Speaker 1: I was watching a TV commercial the other day and
23:53
Speaker 1: they were using Miles Davis music. I was like, look
23:56
Speaker 1: at this from Kind of Blue. Miles has been dead
23:58
Speaker 1: for years, but look this music and it invoked a
24:01
Speaker 1: certain kind of feeling when I listened to it. So
24:04
Speaker 1: music is used to sell everything from cars, to soap,
24:08
Speaker 1: to cereal, you name it. Music is our music is
24:12
Speaker 1: a money generating you're talking about money making. Black music
24:18
Speaker 1: is a money making entity and one of our greatest
24:21
Speaker 1: exports globally. Would that be said? You know now you're
24:24
Speaker 1: on the board. You're a board member of the National
24:26
Speaker 1: Museum of African American Music, which is being built in Nashville.
24:29
Speaker 1: That so, where are we at with that? And the
24:34
Speaker 1: real zation is going to happen? Oh? I love this museum.
24:38
Speaker 1: It is It is the combination of all of my
24:41
Speaker 1: work as a music activist in the industry for many years.
24:44
Speaker 1: The museum is very close to being finished, and we
24:47
Speaker 1: are no different. We've been impacted by the pandemic that
24:50
Speaker 1: we are all currently going through. However, we're anticipating that
24:54
Speaker 1: it will be finished. We're looking to do our grand
24:57
Speaker 1: opening in the fall near la A Day, and if
25:01
Speaker 1: in fact things have not cleared up and there's you know,
25:04
Speaker 1: we're going to put measures and effect that will allow
25:07
Speaker 1: people to be able to come into the museum. However,
25:10
Speaker 1: if that does not happen where we cannot physically have
25:12
Speaker 1: people come in yet, we are going to do a
25:15
Speaker 1: virtual opening, a soft opening, and of course as time
25:20
Speaker 1: progressives and it's safe for human beings to congregate, then
25:24
Speaker 1: of course we will open. But this is a museum
25:26
Speaker 1: and endeavor that started two thousand two and has been
25:29
Speaker 1: going on ever since. Sixty million dollars raised. We only
25:33
Speaker 1: have a few more million dollars to raise to finish things,
25:36
Speaker 1: but it is um I am also the chair of
25:39
Speaker 1: the Music Industry Relations Committee that consists of people who
25:43
Speaker 1: are movers and shakers in the music industry who share
25:45
Speaker 1: our cultural value and want to get the message out
25:49
Speaker 1: not just to America but to the world at large
25:52
Speaker 1: that African American black music is a cultural gem and
25:58
Speaker 1: also an economic engine. So I'm excited to be on
26:01
Speaker 1: the board. It's led by Henry Hicks. He's the CEO
26:04
Speaker 1: and president. We have an esteemed group of people on
26:07
Speaker 1: our board who were religently to preserve, promote and protect
26:12
Speaker 1: our music and culture. So I'm inviting you now, Rishan,
26:15
Speaker 1: You've gotta come Bay Badway, Yes, Broadway, at the part
26:20
Speaker 1: of downtown Nashville, across the street from the original Ryman
26:31
Speaker 1: six facility that when current isn't to discover the central
26:36
Speaker 1: role of African Americans that played in shaping and creating
26:39
Speaker 1: all genres of American music. Beautiful in all good good question. Okay,
26:49
Speaker 1: I let's see. I want to say maybe six seven
26:52
Speaker 1: years ago, I got a letter from Henry Hicks, who's
26:54
Speaker 1: the CEO of the museum, telling me about this effort.
26:58
Speaker 1: And when I saw Nashville, I must tell you I
27:00
Speaker 1: got I got an attitude. I was by Nashville best
27:04
Speaker 1: country music, what what what what? And he came to Philadelphia,
27:09
Speaker 1: May I come to Cillian meet with you? And I
27:11
Speaker 1: said yes, I was polite, sat with him head dinner,
27:14
Speaker 1: and after that dinner I told them sold I'm there.
27:18
Speaker 1: And at first I became a member of the advisory
27:20
Speaker 1: board and started dipping my toe in the pond to
27:23
Speaker 1: get to know these people and see the movement. And
27:26
Speaker 1: as time progressed, I did two fundraisers I co chaired
27:29
Speaker 1: with Phil Thoorton, who is the inspiration fell very good
27:34
Speaker 1: friends as well, and we chaired too, and then to
27:38
Speaker 1: Galas and raised money for the museum honored Charlie Wilson,
27:42
Speaker 1: Nile Rogers, Lona Scott, Young Yalanda Adams, keb Mo. It
27:48
Speaker 1: was a beautiful evening, but I decided to put my
27:53
Speaker 1: energies into this museum and started learning about the musical
27:56
Speaker 1: history of black folks in Nashville. The first major ambassadors
28:01
Speaker 1: of black music around the world with a disc Jubilee
28:04
Speaker 1: singers out of Nashville, Tennessee. So what I didn't know
28:08
Speaker 1: as much as I knew about black music, I don't
28:10
Speaker 1: know at all. But I learned that Nashville was a
28:14
Speaker 1: center of music, not just in the gospel arena, but
28:18
Speaker 1: all genres of music. Was so so anyway, the civic,
28:24
Speaker 1: the government, private sector all came together. Initially this was
28:29
Speaker 1: going to be a Black history museum, but it changed
28:32
Speaker 1: over the years and again, as I said, sixty million
28:34
Speaker 1: dollars later, and as you've seen from going to our website,
28:38
Speaker 1: the National Museum of African American Music dot org. It
28:42
Speaker 1: is a wonderful institution. I did a hard had visit
28:45
Speaker 1: last year and literally tears came to my eyes because
28:49
Speaker 1: I said, I looked forward to bringing my grandson, my
28:52
Speaker 1: friends and family. And for people who don't know about
28:55
Speaker 1: our culture as much as they should, they'll learn when
28:58
Speaker 1: they go to the museum. This and broad Way, Nashville,
29:00
Speaker 1: Tennessee Music City. Thank you, thank you. She is an endedman,
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Speaker 1: speaker and CEO of Influence Entertainment. Thank you Diana Williams
29:09
Speaker 1: for coming on Money Making Conversations. Rashan, thank you for
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