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Anthony Harris Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: But next. Guess is the starting safety for the Minnesota
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Speaker 1: Vikings of the National Football League. He's also the co
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Speaker 1: owner of a cold therapy facility in Richmond, Virginia. He
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Speaker 1: played college football Virginia, one of my favorite school. He
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Speaker 1: was signed by the Vikings as an undrafted free agent,
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Speaker 1: and he's uh also has one of the coolest social
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Speaker 1: media names, Who's dad, Dude? Please welcome to Money Making
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Speaker 1: Conversation Anthony Harrit's hid Anthony. Where you come up with
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Speaker 1: Who's that dude? I love that name. Man. When you
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Speaker 1: get that name that's from the Lama mata um, you know,
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Speaker 1: I just decided to put a little spin on it
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Speaker 1: um and step instead of spelling it w h oh,
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Speaker 1: I decided to go you know with how how mama
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Speaker 1: mat of spells? Who's um? And kind of correlate that
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Speaker 1: to my my university as well. So that's part of branding.
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Speaker 1: Just your your branding guy, your marketing guy, what's your
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Speaker 1: what's your degree? Backround. I'm just trying to do it.
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Speaker 1: I try to be a little bit catchy, you know. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, coming into college, you know, as a freshman,
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Speaker 1: it was all about you know, coming and improving myself
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Speaker 1: and and one thing I wanted to you know, kind
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Speaker 1: of set right away was um, you know, I kind
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Speaker 1: of wanted people to to grab people's attention and kind
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Speaker 1: of make them ask them stuff shelves, who's that dude? So? Um,
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Speaker 1: some people think it's kind of more one of those
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Speaker 1: things where I'm being a little bit confident and and
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Speaker 1: it's like a rhetorical question, but um, it was intended
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Speaker 1: to be like a genuine question of making a statement
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Speaker 1: and having people don't wonder who's that dude? Right right
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Speaker 1: right right? So when you say are you bothered by that?
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Speaker 1: When people say that, uh, do work cocky or overconfident?
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Speaker 1: You know, I see your photos. You do you you
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Speaker 1: have a model style about you, which I like. You know,
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Speaker 1: so does that bother you? Know? You pose and you
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Speaker 1: know you're you're making that hit. You know what I'm
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Speaker 1: saying on the streets? Are you what's what's your future
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Speaker 1: in that area? No? No, it doesn't. It doesn't bother
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Speaker 1: me too much. UM Like, now, understand a lot of
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Speaker 1: people are going to have a different perspective or different
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Speaker 1: understanding of different things. So um, you know, when they
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Speaker 1: when they tend to ask me the question or um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I tend to county let them know, or
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Speaker 1: or if they're trying to suggest, um that you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe I might be meaning in that way. I just
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Speaker 1: kind of explaining it and it's not it's not intended
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Speaker 1: to do that way at all. I don't get sentified
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Speaker 1: at all. Awesome, Well, it's great, we're gonna talk about
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Speaker 1: your business. But it's that time of the year. We
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Speaker 1: just finished the NFL Combine, which I think is blowing up.
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Speaker 1: You know, I see all the celebrities that are tweeting
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Speaker 1: various athletes who are running for theise and lifting weights
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Speaker 1: and doing shuttle drills. Were you able to participate in
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Speaker 1: the NFL Combine when you came out. No, I got invited.
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Speaker 1: Um at the time, I was recovering from a shoulder
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Speaker 1: in hand slver I ha got in December. UM, so
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Speaker 1: me I had the privilege of attending the combine, but
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Speaker 1: unfortunately I wasn't able to actually participate in any of
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Speaker 1: the drills. Just I was able to, you know, visually
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Speaker 1: experience that as well as just the interaction with the
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Speaker 1: coaches and the claim you got to walk around your underwear,
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Speaker 1: get the measurements and talk to the coaches. That's what
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Speaker 1: you got to do FASNA. So so that's part of
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Speaker 1: the process. Now, I really wanted to talk about your
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Speaker 1: your your NFL experience a little bit because you were
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Speaker 1: undrafted free agent, which you mean you come into camp
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Speaker 1: with no guarantees at least if you get drafted. As
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Speaker 1: a general feeling they want to keep their draft picks
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Speaker 1: when you come in as an undrafted free agent. What
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Speaker 1: was running through? First of all, when the draft draft
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Speaker 1: you went through the process of sitting through all these
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Speaker 1: rounds of draft. Did you make a big deal, did
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Speaker 1: you have a draft party or you just wasn't you say,
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Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm gonna draft, I'm just lay
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Speaker 1: low or find out what happens. How did you approach
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Speaker 1: your draft date? UM? For me, it was I actually
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Speaker 1: had a little family gathering. UM. You know. For for me,
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Speaker 1: it was it was kind of, uh, one of those
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Speaker 1: things where I was expected to be taken, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the second to third round. UM. But for me,
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Speaker 1: a guy coming out UM, never really experienced it. UM.
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Speaker 1: I've always kind of you know, took the you know, um,
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Speaker 1: the little low, subtle route. UM. So I had a
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Speaker 1: few people over. Didn't really make too much of a
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Speaker 1: bill big deal abody. You know. Growing up as a kid,
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Speaker 1: I had to watch the NFL draft and UM, you
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Speaker 1: know you hear about the different mark drafts and and
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Speaker 1: where different players supposed to go, and it never quite
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Speaker 1: works out like that. So UM, for me, I had
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Speaker 1: kind of prepared myself for you know the unexpected, um,
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Speaker 1: which was anything could happened. So we had a few
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Speaker 1: people over um ended up going undrafted it um. But
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Speaker 1: before the draft was over, um, you know, in the
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Speaker 1: last surroundings. So UM, I had a number of teams
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Speaker 1: call up UM and and at the time they either
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Speaker 1: said that they they were out of pick for the
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Speaker 1: for the draft that year or either UM, you know,
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Speaker 1: they were going to go in another direction with another
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Speaker 1: position with their last pick. UM, but they you know,
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Speaker 1: expressed that they had interest of um trying to sign
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Speaker 1: me to the roster, um for going in the camp.
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Speaker 1: So UM at that point, I was, I was, I
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Speaker 1: felt pretty good about getting the opportunity, and for me,
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Speaker 1: it was just about if I can get an opportunity that, UM,
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Speaker 1: I'll be able to show improve that you know, I
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Speaker 1: belong in the NFL. So that pretty much happened for
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Speaker 1: me going to the camp. My mindset was pretty much
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Speaker 1: that you know, whatever team I went to, that they
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Speaker 1: were going to steal UM. Whether they knew it or not,
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Speaker 1: UM don't matter. But yeah, yeah, it didn't really it
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Speaker 1: didn't really matter whether they knew it um or not.
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Speaker 1: If they that they would was getting still UM with
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Speaker 1: the undrafted player. But UM. That was kind of my
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Speaker 1: attitude going in was I'm gonna go in nobody's going
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Speaker 1: to really expect anything of me, UM, But once I
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Speaker 1: get healthy, UM, people are gonna, you know, they're they're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to take notice, UM just on my level
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Speaker 1: of play and just going out there and showing what
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Speaker 1: I can do on the still and it has been
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Speaker 1: the case. And they also say just note to my
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Speaker 1: viewers and my listeners and said, when you get late
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Speaker 1: in the draft like that, it's actually better to be
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Speaker 1: undrafted because you can actually negotiate a better deal for
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Speaker 1: yourself and you also can control the team you want
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Speaker 1: to go to. Is that not true? Yeah, yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: UM part of the business side that you know that
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Speaker 1: they particularly say, you know, the first the first three
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Speaker 1: rounds are are guys who they really really want, UM
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Speaker 1: and and really expect to you know, make that final roster. UM.
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Speaker 1: But you know, the NFL, it's it's a very competitive
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Speaker 1: work environment, very competitive businesses. UM that people who come
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Speaker 1: in and get drafted and UM, you know once the
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Speaker 1: season started, no longer with the team UM, just because
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Speaker 1: of the number of spots and just how competitive it is. UM.
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Speaker 1: But you know, the later rounds UM those guys that
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Speaker 1: to go in and get opportunity. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: you know, being able to go in as a free agent, UM,
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Speaker 1: it does kind of the one advantages kind of controlling
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Speaker 1: what situation you go into. But you know, at that point,
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Speaker 1: you know, if you're if you're following the free agency,
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Speaker 1: UM category, then you're pretty much got to compete wherever
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Speaker 1: you go. Anyway, Yeah, the last two years, I'm a
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Speaker 1: big football fan. So you know, when you talk about
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Speaker 1: a talent like you, it's all about transition and what
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Speaker 1: do you do when you're not hitting somebody? What you
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Speaker 1: do when you're not playing football? And I'm assuming that
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Speaker 1: what you're doing opening this cold therapy facility and rich Virginia, Richmond,
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Speaker 1: Virginia is part of that transition and small business that
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Speaker 1: you're trying to create for yourself. Correct. Yeah, Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: about you know, creating that opportunity, creating that platform, um
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Speaker 1: for you to be successful. And that's that's successful on
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Speaker 1: the field. Um, you have to you know, translate that
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Speaker 1: to off the field as well. So um, in season
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Speaker 1: and offseason, that stuff translates to from diet down to
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Speaker 1: recovery as well, you know, going into tough workouts and
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Speaker 1: being able to you know, finish up your day and
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Speaker 1: get your body ready to go to the next day.
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Speaker 1: That's just as important. So for me, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: I decided to you know, I used to cry od
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Speaker 1: therapy business, UM, and then once you know, using that
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Speaker 1: to help improve my recovery, I decided to join it
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Speaker 1: UM as far as business wise and expanding there. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's let's break that down a little bit. Just to generally, UH,
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Speaker 1: it's CROYWD therapy sometimes you knowing this cold therapy is
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Speaker 1: a local and general use of low temperatures in medical therapy.
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Speaker 1: It's used to treat various type of tissue issues. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm a regular guy, you know, would I would I
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Speaker 1: engage myself in this type of therapy? Just a regular
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Speaker 1: guy out there playing hoops to a guy who runs
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Speaker 1: like several miles a week. I know you're not just
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Speaker 1: You're not just attacking. Are you attacking just the everyday athlete?
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Speaker 1: Or they are they want to be athletes? Or the
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Speaker 1: high school athlete? Are they are there the semipro or
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Speaker 1: pro athletes? What do you what are you focusing on
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Speaker 1: with just a facility UM this it's just it's just
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Speaker 1: so you know, UM a wealth wealth fitness UM you
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Speaker 1: know approach. It's not just for the you know, the
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Speaker 1: professional athlete or the earthly day athlete that's going in UM.
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Speaker 1: This is something in the service that you know, can
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Speaker 1: UM be utilized by a large scale crowd. UM It
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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily have to be recovery for fitness. It can
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Speaker 1: be recovery from injury. UM. And you know, you don't
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Speaker 1: have to be in sports and you know, to be
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Speaker 1: involved in an accident and and have some sort of injury.
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Speaker 1: So UM, I mean, we have people who come in
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Speaker 1: from getting car accidents, they're having back pain. UM. They
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Speaker 1: can hop in the machine and you know it pretty
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Speaker 1: much excuse it pretty much helps their body recover as
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Speaker 1: far as dropping their body down to a low temperature
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Speaker 1: UM causing the body to have it heat itself up
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Speaker 1: and that helps with blood circulation and you know, flushing
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Speaker 1: out that old damage tissue and that old damage blood
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Speaker 1: in that area and getting you know, fresh blood in
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Speaker 1: there so it can properly heal and heal faster. UM.
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Speaker 1: So we have people coming in not just in the
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Speaker 1: sports world, in the bisness world, but just from day
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Speaker 1: to day, whether it's injuries due to UM you know,
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Speaker 1: old UM, old activities, or whether it's just due to
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Speaker 1: age or they're just their body is and moving as well.
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Speaker 1: So the machine can help, UM promote mobility and relieve
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Speaker 1: some stiffness as well. So you're saying that, Okay, Risha,
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Speaker 1: look here brother, you're walking around like you're eight. Okay,
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Speaker 1: now come over here to my facility that I can
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Speaker 1: get you at least to sixty. So it's about therapy.
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Speaker 1: It's about there by daughter she played tennis. She was
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Speaker 1: a pro, and like I said, she was always doing
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Speaker 1: these massages. She was always, Uh, you're going through various therapy,
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Speaker 1: you know, because she was always putting stress on her body.
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Speaker 1: So and so it's just an athlete. She turned pro
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Speaker 1: and uh when she was. So with that being said,
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Speaker 1: how would I how would I? How would I have
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Speaker 1: incorporated this into her until her process of recovery or
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Speaker 1: ongoing weekly therapy. Yeah, you know, you can go a
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Speaker 1: number of ways about it. Um. Some people, you know,
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Speaker 1: they use it as a as a as a day start.
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Speaker 1: They're coming in the morning and they get in and
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Speaker 1: right away. Um. You know that circulation and it brings
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Speaker 1: you a lot more energy right away. Um. You know
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Speaker 1: that circulation throughout your body brings you enery to your limbs, um,
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Speaker 1: pushes oxygen to your brain. So it kind of gets
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Speaker 1: you going right away and gets you really alert. Um.
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Speaker 1: But you know with the joints and the muscles and
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Speaker 1: different things like that. Um, you know, with that extra
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Speaker 1: oxygen and blood, so rushing through there it allows some
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Speaker 1: more mobility. UM. So that's how it helps with recovery.
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Speaker 1: You know sometimes when you lift your sword, um, or
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Speaker 1: just from day to day, so you know, you have
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Speaker 1: a long day at work or you're sitting down a
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Speaker 1: lot um and you notice that your knees or your
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Speaker 1: ankles tend to get stiff on you. Um. If you
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Speaker 1: can come in and and and use to utilize that
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Speaker 1: in the morning, UM, that's something that can get you going.
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Speaker 1: I'm on the phone with Who's that Dude? That's the
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Speaker 1: starting safety the Minnesota Vikers, Athon Harris. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to him about my favorite restaurant
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Speaker 1: in Richmond, Croaker Spot. You go there, Anthony, come on that.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk about it
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Speaker 1: more money making conversations. I just for Sean mcgonal, I'm back.
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Speaker 1: You know, I've talked about man Who's that Dude as
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Speaker 1: a social media handle. At social media handle, I think
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Speaker 1: it's one of the coolest handles I've seen out there,
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Speaker 1: being a guy who about brand building, about marketing. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The way you can get it rolling is by having
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Speaker 1: stuffing the unique and who's that dude? Is very unique.
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Speaker 1: It's tied to the starting safety of the Minnesota Vikings.
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Speaker 1: Anthony Harris, who's based out of Richmond, Virginia. Correct, Okay,
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Speaker 1: before we even get rolling anymore. So, I have this
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Speaker 1: think on my on my website called rushaun Eats because
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Speaker 1: I'm a foodie and I travel all over this country.
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Speaker 1: Whenever I get to Richmond, I gotta stop by Croker's
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Speaker 1: Spot restaurant, one of my favorite restaurants in the country. Uh,
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Speaker 1: come on, Anthony, I know you go there, don't you. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I go to cokead Spot a good bit. I go
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Speaker 1: to croked Spot a good bit sometimes, you know, the
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Speaker 1: family sends me over there after a few runs to
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Speaker 1: pick up some things. Um, but it's not it's not
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Speaker 1: always easy getting over there and get what they wanted.
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Speaker 1: So it's a busy place. It's a busy place. My
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Speaker 1: favorite place. The best corn bread in the world. They
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Speaker 1: put that Carol Mail on top of that corn bread.
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Speaker 1: Brother m Special Special Special. It's food restaurant, big portions,
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Speaker 1: that's what we like. Big portions. Uh, great foods. Like
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Speaker 1: you said, it is the pact place. But I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to give Croker's a shout out because the fact
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Speaker 1: that they've fed me many many times uh in that
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Speaker 1: restaurant over the years, and every time I get over there,
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Speaker 1: I always tell me I got my producer. She lives
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Speaker 1: in Richmond and periodically Anton I have a ship beat
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Speaker 1: some corn break. So let's get back to you man
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Speaker 1: in pro football? How long is pro football gonna last
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Speaker 1: for you? My friend? I'm not sure. I mean my now,
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Speaker 1: my body is feeling good. I'm still excited to getting
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Speaker 1: up every day going into work. Um, I tell a
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Speaker 1: lot of people, it doesn't even feel like work, you know.
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Speaker 1: It's just it's getting up and going in to do
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Speaker 1: something that I love to do. So as long as
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Speaker 1: I'm able to go out there and perform at a
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Speaker 1: high level and I'm I'm feeling excited about it, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to continue to do it now. Now, quick question,
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Speaker 1: did you finish your degree at University of Virginia or
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Speaker 1: where we're with that? Yeah, you know, I graduated in
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Speaker 1: uh three and a half years UM with the sociology degree.
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Speaker 1: So I finished up over therever Gion just before entering
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Speaker 1: the draft. It's amazing. I mean, people come on my
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Speaker 1: show with a sociology degree, my minor with sociology. My
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Speaker 1: degrees in mathematics and sociology change my life. Man. I
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Speaker 1: always tell people that because people understand that, you know,
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Speaker 1: you when you when you go through high school, you
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Speaker 1: go through life, you learned that they're just telling you
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Speaker 1: what they want to tell you. When you take sociology,
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Speaker 1: you really it really breaks down what information you don't
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Speaker 1: know and how people interact. Tell me about just just
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Speaker 1: tell everybody that the importance of what sociology and didn't
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Speaker 1: getting that degree has played in your life because it
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Speaker 1: changed my life. Yeah, UM, one thing to do. One
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Speaker 1: thing it did. Um. You know, it allowed me to
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Speaker 1: step back and and get an understanding of you know,
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Speaker 1: how we as people and how it and how a
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Speaker 1: society um essentially how we evolved, UM, how we continue
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Speaker 1: to grow, how we continue to change. UM. And then
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Speaker 1: it allowed me to understand, uh that everybody has a
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Speaker 1: different view UM, and that's okay, UM, you know, that's
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Speaker 1: that's just part of life that everybody is not gonna agree.
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Speaker 1: Everybody is not gonna always you know, be on the
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Speaker 1: same page. So once you can understand that, UM, it
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Speaker 1: allows you to you know, avoid so many problems and
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Speaker 1: and move forward on different issues and different topics and
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Speaker 1: to continue to be able to always progress, um in
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Speaker 1: a direction that you want to go based off of
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Speaker 1: you know, the things that are going on around you, UM,
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Speaker 1: the things that you can control, UM, and the things
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Speaker 1: that have happened in the past. And in their sociology course,
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Speaker 1: did they have African American studies in that in that platform?
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Speaker 1: Yes they did. I'm gonna tell you something, UM, this
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Speaker 1: is honest question or the statement is that when I
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Speaker 1: realized what I didn't know and what the school system
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Speaker 1: that taught me, I always really brought to tears about
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Speaker 1: the information that was died me. That you know, when
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Speaker 1: you when you go through or high school, they tell
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Speaker 1: you that that uh use broad over, you know, and
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Speaker 1: then also you were freed, and then you jump to
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Speaker 1: the gym Crow Laws, then you jumped to Brown Brown
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Speaker 1: Roses Board of Education. Then you jump to the I
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Speaker 1: have a dream speech, and then you're done. You're done
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Speaker 1: with black history in the school system except when they
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Speaker 1: celebrate during Black History Month. If you have the chance,
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Speaker 1: anybody black and white, if you have a chance to
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Speaker 1: take sociology. Of course, I always recommend people to do that.
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Speaker 1: It changed my perspective, like I several very successful what
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Speaker 1: I do in life. But it's also tied to the
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Speaker 1: fact that I have a very open mind when I
18:35
Speaker 1: look at people. I have a clear understanding that life
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Speaker 1: is UH is about the opportunity and what you take.
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Speaker 1: Race does play a role, UH or you're born does
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Speaker 1: play a role. How much money you have does play
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Speaker 1: a role. But if you are willing to put forth
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Speaker 1: an opportunity and set all that aside, set all that
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Speaker 1: and ignore it and realize it looks I'm gonna die black,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna die I might even in born poor doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean I have to live a poor life or die
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Speaker 1: poor life. And that's what sociology did for me, and
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Speaker 1: it made me really realize that that that the limits
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Speaker 1: that I put on myself can be self imposed. Do
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Speaker 1: not allow society to dictate to you who you should be,
19:16
Speaker 1: based on your race, based on your economic growth, based
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Speaker 1: on the system that tells you or you should be.
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Speaker 1: And that's where they brought to me. And I'm so
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Speaker 1: proud whenever I speak to someone who who's been influenced
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Speaker 1: by sociology, because I know, Anthony, you're a better person
19:31
Speaker 1: because you not saying that people who don't take that degree,
19:34
Speaker 1: but you have a better insight onto life because of
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Speaker 1: what sociology it brings to you. M hm. Now after
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Speaker 1: that little soapbox bone and let's get back to you.
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Speaker 1: Because I just, you know, I just I always like
19:47
Speaker 1: to tell people that when I it's so many people
19:49
Speaker 1: come on my show and it just always impacts me
19:52
Speaker 1: so positively that I have to let people know that that.
19:55
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you know anthem, because you you
19:58
Speaker 1: have a certain insight, I want you to make sure
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Speaker 1: you share that and share those values. Make sure you
20:03
Speaker 1: mentor man because you have you've you've you've been you've
20:06
Speaker 1: been blasted through education with a clean and unique understanding
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Speaker 1: how life really is. You know you can you can
20:12
Speaker 1: have a degree in engineer, you have degree in computer saying,
20:14
Speaker 1: you have my daughters in gaming. But man, unless you
20:17
Speaker 1: understand that that a lot of times we failed when
20:20
Speaker 1: they all want to talk about Africana. That's why I
20:22
Speaker 1: am African MARYA. A lot of people are fault racism
20:25
Speaker 1: as a reason we fail so much. A lot of
20:27
Speaker 1: times it's about how you present yourself. I always tell people,
20:30
Speaker 1: decisions are made on your right and your left. People
20:33
Speaker 1: look at the right, they looked at the left, or
20:35
Speaker 1: look in front of them make decision. That's how people
20:37
Speaker 1: make decisions. You never look behind you to make decisions.
20:40
Speaker 1: You never go, oh, let me know, nobody ever turns
20:42
Speaker 1: around to make a decision. They look to the left,
20:44
Speaker 1: they look to the right, they're look in front of you.
20:46
Speaker 1: Your job is to be on the left or right
20:48
Speaker 1: in front. Now, you know that for a fact. As
20:51
Speaker 1: an athlete, if you want to make the coaches or
20:54
Speaker 1: impress the coaches, you have to be in front of them.
20:56
Speaker 1: You have to do Actually, you can't be over there
20:58
Speaker 1: drinking water on all the time, otherwise they're gonna go,
21:02
Speaker 1: what does he do? Oh he drinks water? Really good, coach, Okay,
21:05
Speaker 1: we won't play him. And so that's what life is.
21:07
Speaker 1: And so so do you correlate what you do on
21:10
Speaker 1: as a professional athlete to what happens what you can
21:14
Speaker 1: do as a as an everyday person or you're able
21:16
Speaker 1: to correlate that. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of you know,
21:21
Speaker 1: UM things that carry over not just from UM football,
21:25
Speaker 1: but as an athletes in sports and general that you
21:27
Speaker 1: can carry over to your life. UM that are good things.
21:30
Speaker 1: You know, UM, you know what you The results you
21:34
Speaker 1: get UM are going to be based off of the
21:36
Speaker 1: efforts that you put in. UM. You know you and
21:39
Speaker 1: then success success comes when you know your preparation meets opportunity. UM.
21:45
Speaker 1: You know, if you're on the field and you you
21:47
Speaker 1: studied and you've worked hard. UM, you've got your body
21:50
Speaker 1: and shape, you've got your mind and shape, and you visualize,
21:53
Speaker 1: you know, making that play and you've seen it a
21:55
Speaker 1: bunch on film, you've done it in practice, and then
21:58
Speaker 1: the opportunity in the aim is presented. UM. If you're prepared,
22:02
Speaker 1: you're gonna go and make that play. UM. That's just
22:04
Speaker 1: like in real life. You know. UM, if you're prepared
22:07
Speaker 1: when you go and work every day. UM, or if
22:10
Speaker 1: you're prepared with the right attitude. UM. If you go
22:13
Speaker 1: into a situation and it and it could be negative, UM,
22:16
Speaker 1: as long as your mind is right and you're prepared
22:19
Speaker 1: and understand how to handle adversity, UM, you will be
22:23
Speaker 1: all right in that decision. UM, and your decision making
22:26
Speaker 1: and and and then controlling the results as much as possible. Cool.
22:29
Speaker 1: Let's find out where is your location of your of
22:33
Speaker 1: your business that your co therapy business in Richmond, Virginia.
22:36
Speaker 1: Where is it located at We're located off We're located
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Speaker 1: off of West broad Street, out of herko UM just
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Speaker 1: on Short Pump mall Um and the addresses eleven five
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Speaker 1: seven five or West Broad Street. Do you have a
22:51
Speaker 1: phone number to the business. Yeah, we have a phone
22:54
Speaker 1: number if you want to call in UM and get
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Speaker 1: locations or either scheduled appointment. It's uh go four six
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Speaker 1: two for zero zero nine. A cool give us that
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Speaker 1: number one more time, Anthony, apologize for interrupting you. It's
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Speaker 1: eight oh four five six two for zero zero nine.
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Speaker 1: We've answered the questions about regular people or everyday people
23:25
Speaker 1: or athletes, so it's a very diverse opportunity to hear.
23:30
Speaker 1: But before we leave, I want you to talk about
23:32
Speaker 1: your your your foundation and what it means to me.
23:36
Speaker 1: Why you got to start it? Yeah, the One Love
23:40
Speaker 1: Foundation UM And unfortunately, in two thousand and ten, young
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Speaker 1: lady who attended the University of Virginia UM just before
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Speaker 1: um I rapped on campus. She was a student athlete
23:53
Speaker 1: and she was in a relationship with another athlete UM
23:56
Speaker 1: and unfortunately it was an unhealthy relationship and then it
24:00
Speaker 1: escalated to the point where UM, you know, her life
24:03
Speaker 1: was taken UM and her boyfriend at the time his
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Speaker 1: life ruined as well. UM. And from that moment on UM,
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Speaker 1: the young lady's mother assuring love UM, she wanted to
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Speaker 1: start a foundation in hopes of raising awareness for unhealthy
24:21
Speaker 1: relationships UM specifically targeted at teenagers UM to be able
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Speaker 1: to help try to avoid situations like that from happening.
24:30
Speaker 1: If you could, you know, spot signs of unhealthy relationship
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Speaker 1: UM before they you know, reach that boiling point. UM,
24:37
Speaker 1: that potentially you can save a life. So the organization
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Speaker 1: was started shortly after in two thousand and eleven. UM
24:44
Speaker 1: and where I took place in some events at uv
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Speaker 1: A as a student and then UM as my platform
24:50
Speaker 1: grew UM. Now being in the NFL from my going
24:53
Speaker 1: on fifth season, UM, I decided to use utilize my
24:57
Speaker 1: platform to help raise awareness UM as well less financial
25:01
Speaker 1: part for the for the organization. Well, congratulations, UH, this
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Speaker 1: is Anthony Harris. UH very challenges starting your safety for
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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Graduate of the University of Virginia UH
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Speaker 1: in sociology thuring and a half years. UH. You keep winning,
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Speaker 1: young man, UM. Please tell your team to send some
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Speaker 1: my social media and look forward to having you back
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