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Entrepreneur: Mela Lovett discusses useful Techniques on dealing with stress or high emotional situations while running her lawn care company. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 2: Family Lawn Services. It's that time of the year. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: a landscape company that excels and provides the top tier
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  Speaker 2: Mela love it. How you doing, Mila?
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  Speaker 4: Hi, resign o? Good? How are you now?
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  Speaker 2: Would I be wrong and say you've been out in
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  Speaker 2: the yard all day?
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  Speaker 4: Definitely would be.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, you've been having the scene. It's okay, right,
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  Speaker 2: there's sunshine or rainy days, it doesn't matter. It's a
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  Speaker 2: good day with you.
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  Speaker 4: Huh Right. Sometimes I'll get out there when it needs,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a lady touch, but I leave it up
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  Speaker 4: to the guys.
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  Speaker 2: Well good, Let's let's talk about being a CEO, and
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  Speaker 2: also I want to talk about it. When I was
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  Speaker 2: going through your bio, Mila, it well mentioned something about
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  Speaker 2: being a serial entrepreneur. What does that mean? When you
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  Speaker 2: say a serial entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I run multiple businesses. Okay, of course you
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  Speaker 4: can't only have one stream of income, and so landscape
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  Speaker 4: is my top priority. But I'm also age mortgage lender
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  Speaker 4: in Georgia for commercial and residential properties. I'm a consultant
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  Speaker 4: on business setups and how to properly structure your business
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  Speaker 4: because a lot of the time our people wasn't taught that.
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  Speaker 4: So I feel like it's my duty to tell the world,
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  Speaker 4: teach them how to properly structure their businesses so that
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  Speaker 4: they can thrive and won't have to content continue to
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  Speaker 4: use personal money for business purposes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people come to me and uh, because I, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: I love the fact that you mentioned multiple streams of
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  Speaker 2: income because I talk about that all the time on
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  Speaker 2: there are twenty four hours in the day, learn to
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of each hour. And I'm assuming that's what
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  Speaker 2: you're doing with these multiple streams of income format because
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  Speaker 2: it's not based in a forty hour work week. Correct?
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  Speaker 4: Correct?
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  Speaker 2: So how do you how do you manage? I heard
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  Speaker 2: her husband in your bayo, I heard kids in your bio.
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  Speaker 2: I hear the multiple streams of income? See, Oh, how
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  Speaker 2: are you doing all this? Mealer?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? I meditate? Honestly, I meditate. Oh some days, I
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  Speaker 4: honestly don't know how I'm doing it, but I know
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  Speaker 4: that it's a bigger goal. R It's bigger than me.
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  Speaker 4: So my body is pretty much taking its own control
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  Speaker 4: and just doing it. I'll call the people that I need,
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  Speaker 4: put people in places to help me when needed. I
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  Speaker 4: appreciate all my support, but yeah, meditation is my number
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  Speaker 4: one go to.
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  Speaker 2: Now I've never done meditating. I've never talked about meditating
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  Speaker 2: on the show. I've talked about stretching. I've talked about yoga,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, but meditation. Talk to me about that because
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  Speaker 2: that sounds like something that people need to when they
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  Speaker 2: hit that stress point. Some type of meditation needs to
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  Speaker 2: be in everybody's life, I believe, or slow down button
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  Speaker 2: or a moment to be able to you know, I
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  Speaker 2: guess they say decompress, talk about meditation.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's very important. And like I said, I do
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  Speaker 4: multiple things. So I have small children under what seven
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  Speaker 4: and four? So I got children, I have puppies and everything.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody needs something at one time. So when I feel
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  Speaker 4: myself getting a little too much pressure, a little too overwhelmed,
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  Speaker 4: I shut everything down. No phone, no computer, no kids, nobody.
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  Speaker 4: I sit in the room, put on frequency sounds off
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  Speaker 4: the pandora, and I just breathe in and breathe out.
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  Speaker 4: At that moment, everything that's on my mind I let
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  Speaker 4: it go. Nothing I do about it right now, let
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  Speaker 4: me take these ten minutes to just really regroup, because mentally,
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  Speaker 4: you can't function properly with so many things hitting you
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  Speaker 4: at one time. That's how I feel about it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I like that. I like that. I know that
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  Speaker 2: everybody has a way of dealing with stress. That's a
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  Speaker 2: stress moment right there. When you're when you're meditating, when
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  Speaker 2: you're decompressing, you're you're finding a zone where okay, look
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  Speaker 2: before I say something wrong, do something wrong, you know, stop,
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  Speaker 2: and that that control. I admire the fact that you
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  Speaker 2: know your brain breaking point or nearing your breaking point.
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming that's what you're trying to avoid.
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  Speaker 4: Correct, correct, correct, And I actually learned that after my
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  Speaker 4: last son something personal about me. I have postpartum depression.
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  Speaker 4: So I had to really dig into my mental to
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  Speaker 4: understand what is going on, Why is this happening? Why
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  Speaker 4: do I feel such pressure, darkness, sadness, everything is going
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  Speaker 4: on at one time. And that's when I started meditating.
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  Speaker 4: I started digging into paths, traumas all along, writing things down,
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  Speaker 4: getting these things out so I to understand when is
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  Speaker 4: my breaking point and what do I need to do
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  Speaker 4: when I'm reaching it.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this because I want to really
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important as we delve into this because
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  Speaker 2: of the fact that, you know, as African Americans, we
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  Speaker 2: don't talk about mental health. We tend to shy away
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  Speaker 2: from those systems that may show we are not perfect.
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  Speaker 2: And we all know we live in a highly stressful
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  Speaker 2: environment because of the color of our skin. So what
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  Speaker 2: did you turn to? What did you find that on
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  Speaker 2: this morment? Was it your husband? Where did you go
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  Speaker 2: to realize, you know, I need help.
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  Speaker 4: I think what happened was my son got really my
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  Speaker 4: youngest son was really, really sick, and I mean everything
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  Speaker 4: is hit at one time, and it really hurt. It
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  Speaker 4: felt really heavy. I'm like, I'm just gonna run away,
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  Speaker 4: leave all of this alone, just run away. I left
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  Speaker 4: the house. I sat and I thought about it. I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: can you really leave your children by their selves? Can
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  Speaker 4: you leave them to not be raised by mother? Like, no,
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  Speaker 4: can't do that, That's not an option. So I started reading,
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  Speaker 4: started reading about the importance of your mental health. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't have insurance at the time, so I didn't have
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  Speaker 4: a doctor I could go to. Just started reading and
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  Speaker 4: then I start journaling, writing things out because everything that
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  Speaker 4: I was reading was saying, you have to get out
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  Speaker 4: these past traumas in order for you to move forward.
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  Speaker 4: So I said, Okay, everything that ever happened in the past,
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  Speaker 4: I have to completely and ultimately let it go, Let
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  Speaker 4: it out, let it go. It happened. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: or understand why it may happen, but it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 4: because it doesn't affect who I am.
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  Speaker 2: Today, right right, And I think it's important as entrepreneurs
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  Speaker 2: people get into business that you know, we all want
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  Speaker 2: lying at the door when you open your door. We
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  Speaker 2: all want an email box full when you have a business.
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  Speaker 2: But those sometimes it doesn't happen like that. You have
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  Speaker 2: down moments, those stress moments, those stress points that pop up.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've been an entrepreneur in the family lawn service.
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  Speaker 2: Now I gotta ask you this, is it a seasonal
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  Speaker 2: period for lawn service?
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  Speaker 4: When I first when we post first started, we thought it.
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  Speaker 2: Was okay, you thought, like, Mabe, the summertime. It's when
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  Speaker 2: it's like you busy, busy in my mind, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and it's you know, like I'm just saying, like May
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  Speaker 2: to September is if you have launch service company, you busy,
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  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, when the days get cold,
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  Speaker 2: in my mind, you start shutting down and you have
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  Speaker 2: to make sure you save money from your summer activity.
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  Speaker 2: You're telling me that's that's that's not how it really works. Correct, correct,
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  Speaker 2: talk to me.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so it's seasonal. Yeah, you make more money during
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  Speaker 4: the summertime. You would think that at first, but as
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  Speaker 4: your repetition gets out there, people understand what you do,
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  Speaker 4: under respect the quality of work you do. You have referrals,
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  Speaker 4: that's referring you to other people. Then the wintertime can
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  Speaker 4: be just as busy as the summertime. The only difference
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  Speaker 4: is we're not doing as many properties as we would
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  Speaker 4: normally do.
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  Speaker 2: Right, right, Okay, so let's talk about Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a guy you know who thanks you know who
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  Speaker 2: thinks he knows lawn service.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, they all do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm a good le I know I know
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  Speaker 2: about nuts edge and crab grass, and I know about
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  Speaker 2: the cloud clovers. And you know I got my you know,
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  Speaker 2: I got my weed and feed or the weed. They
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  Speaker 2: won't harm your the spread, they won't harm your grass,
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  Speaker 2: but to harm the weeds. So I'm not. I guess
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  Speaker 2: I'm know enough to be dangerous.
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  Speaker 5: Me.
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  Speaker 2: Look, okay, okay, okay, okay, Now I call you as
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  Speaker 2: a lawn service. What do I need to be because
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  Speaker 2: I brought you on the show, because first of all,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I know enough to be dangerous, but
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  Speaker 2: I need you to make my yard last to avoid
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  Speaker 2: that ugliness, because I don't want to be the neighbor
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  Speaker 2: who has the bad looking yard in the in the
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  Speaker 2: in the neighborhood. So when I call you, what in
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  Speaker 2: any particular questions I should be asking you as a
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  Speaker 2: family lawn service?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, okay, So when you initially call a landscape company,
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  Speaker 4: it depends on what kind of services you're looking for.
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  Speaker 4: Now you have lawn maintenance.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, cool? Is lawn maintenance? Cutting your grass?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, cuttings in your edgine, blowing, that's lawn mask
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  Speaker 4: if you if the hedges are included, will from the
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  Speaker 4: bushes as well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now let me ask you this, let me shure it.
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  Speaker 2: So so oh, you know, I'm just using my yard
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  Speaker 2: as an example, not gonna get too descriptive. Or now
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  Speaker 2: I do have the hedges, and then sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 2: you walk and I got these little limbs probably need
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  Speaker 2: to be cut back. I guess would you call that trimming?
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  Speaker 4: Trimming?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, cool, So hedging we call trimming as well. That's
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  Speaker 2: you know hedges. You walk around the path where you
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  Speaker 2: they look like they're a little fat, you know, look
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  Speaker 2: like they need to be you know, trim back a
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  Speaker 2: little bit so off the top knock off. Now that's
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  Speaker 2: a skill. Though. Now I hired the wrong person one
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  Speaker 2: time and I almost lost all my hedges. Okay, how
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  Speaker 2: do I know the right person to get out there?
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  Speaker 2: They won't have me cry because I cried. I cried,
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  Speaker 2: walked out there, I saw this guy and I went,
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  Speaker 2: I have made a major mistake. And you know he
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  Speaker 2: cut my He cut my hedges so bad that he
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  Speaker 2: left and didn't even ask for no money. Not that
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  Speaker 2: I would have paid him, but no, he knew, he
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  Speaker 2: knew he had messed up that bad. I wouldn't. I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you something me. It was just a moment for
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  Speaker 2: me in my yard, because you know, that's where I
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  Speaker 2: get relaxed. She know, your yard is where you get relaxed.
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  Speaker 2: You come home and you feel good, you're walking into
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  Speaker 2: your house. And I hide this guy he would he
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  Speaker 2: left a little note in my mailbox. Right, you laughing
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  Speaker 2: at me now because you said, Rishan, that's sign number
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  Speaker 2: one mailbox. No up table. We're about to go to
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  Speaker 2: break so I could finish this story. Beeler, because you're
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  Speaker 2: laughing at me now because you know I'm making some mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: I made some mistakes. Now I'm not making those mistakes anymore.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking to her, Meela love It. She's a serial entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 2: She's the CEO of Family Lawn Services. Now she doesn't
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  Speaker 2: go out there and cut no grass, but she knows
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  Speaker 2: and tells everybody what to do. She lives a life
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  Speaker 2: of accudition the rest of those people out there working
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  Speaker 2: in the sun. You call her, she'd keep me in
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  Speaker 2: the sun. We be right back with Family Lawn Service CEO,
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  Speaker 2: Mela love It. You're listening to Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Rashaan McDonald.
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  Speaker 2: My guest is the CEO of Family Lawn Services, Mela
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  Speaker 2: love It. Mila Os was laughing at me Chuckley, and
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  Speaker 2: I say Chuckley when I told her how I got
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  Speaker 2: my lawn service. Somebody had left a note in my mailbox.
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  Speaker 2: You know, trust in me. I hired this person to
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  Speaker 2: do lawn services manicure unless you used the word manicure.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he said on his note, me loave, he
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  Speaker 2: did lawn manicures. Okay, came in and destroyed my hedges
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  Speaker 2: so bad that when I went inside and came back out,
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  Speaker 2: he was gone and I never saw him again, Mila.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a testimony to how bad he did my York.
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  Speaker 2: So with that being said, what did I do wrong?
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  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry for lasting sorry. But first, first, for
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  Speaker 4: say a note in your mailbox? No sorry, no, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Even when I started a landscape company, we never opened
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  Speaker 4: somebody's mailbox but a business part on the side or
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  Speaker 4: on the front, because you know it's a set of
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  Speaker 4: room fit to open the mailbo mm hmmmm hl Like
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  Speaker 4: we're in preschool. You want to be my boyfriend? Yes
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  Speaker 4: or no? No, no, no, sorry, you should not have
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  Speaker 4: allowed him to do anything to your bushes. Last, you
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  Speaker 4: need to check the resources right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know I but you know, sometimes it goes
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  Speaker 2: in the whole thing. It's like even if I call
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  Speaker 2: the people, you know, I didn't know where to look.
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  Speaker 2: I was in a hurry. I'm gonna use that excuse.
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  Speaker 2: I was in a hurry. You know what could somebody
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  Speaker 2: do wrong? You know? And I discovered that they if
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  Speaker 2: they don't know what they're doing, they out there. You
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  Speaker 2: let somebody damage something that if you if you do
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  Speaker 2: it wrong, then guess what you have to physically replace
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  Speaker 2: the hedges, which I wind up doing. So he may
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  Speaker 2: have left without me paying him, but he left a bill, right,
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  Speaker 2: He left a battle. And so so with that being said,
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  Speaker 2: you as a lawn service, when did you start your
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  Speaker 2: lawn business? Mila?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we started five years ago, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And what made you feel that was an area of
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  Speaker 2: business that you could be successful in?
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, it was just off the hope to be able
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  Speaker 4: to lead something to our children.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: My husband said, I want to cut grass.
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  Speaker 2: I said, okay, that's that's really that's an understatement. What
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  Speaker 2: was he doing Prior to lawn service.
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  Speaker 4: We were both working at retail stores. I was the
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  Speaker 4: assistant manager at Walgreens and the manager at Walmart.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so y'all had successful jobs with the medical health
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  Speaker 2: care plans, and y'all independently thought y'all would go in
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  Speaker 2: business together to do Launcher. And that's really I'm just
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out why lawn service? Did you go
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  Speaker 2: through a list of opportunities for business? Uh options? Why
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  Speaker 2: lawn service? Because your husband said, let's cut grass. He
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  Speaker 2: went and got a couple of lawnmows, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weed eats. He knew. Somebody give us some backstory.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, literally, he used to cut grass with his brother
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  Speaker 4: when they were younger, When they were you know, kids
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  Speaker 4: cut the neighborhoods grass and things like that. But outside
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  Speaker 4: of that, I've never seen them cut grass until we
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  Speaker 4: got a house of our own, right, and he cut
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  Speaker 4: the grass.
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  Speaker 2: So basically, you're telling me that, you know, like he's
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  Speaker 2: an interesting story about me, Like I didn't, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. My mom always cooked, but then as I
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  Speaker 2: got older, I fell in love with cooking and baking
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  Speaker 2: because I started doing it myself. So are you saying
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  Speaker 2: that when you got a house. It kind of triggered
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  Speaker 2: maybe an entrance, because he was he really like really
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  Speaker 2: jazzing up your yard, like really killing the weeds and
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  Speaker 2: doing the hedges and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he studied. He started on our grass or
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: our grades.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. And then so so how do you start hiring
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  Speaker 2: people for your company? How do you do that process?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I guess I want to say me. I know you said.
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  Speaker 2: Look with Sean, I handle the paperwork. They do the task.
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  Speaker 2: He's by himself. He's told you you have successful jobs,
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  Speaker 2: y'all not leaving you know, y'all not leaving jobs that
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: not that that people are companies that people don't know,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: very familiar jobs. What did people say? Your family members
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  Speaker 2: say to you, people you know, tell you you're quitting two
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  Speaker 2: jobs as managers, system managers to.
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  Speaker 4: Cut grass, well rich only I didn't quit.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, you played it, played it, played it smart,
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  Speaker 2: you quit, you cut grass. I'm just keeping up. I'm
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  Speaker 2: keeping my forty hour with job.
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  Speaker 4: That's what you say, right until we, you know, get
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: it rolling, which I'm glad we did it, because any
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: business have losses. Right our first season, somebody stole the truck,
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  Speaker 4: the equipment, everything, literally stole everything we had.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you know that happened to the guy who's cutting
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  Speaker 2: my grass too. So you know, he came to me
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: one day and uh, he said, Rashaan got some bad news.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: My truck and all my equipment was stolen. H So
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: how did it happen in your situation? You know, because
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: he's literally said, you know what he did was parked
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: in front of somebody's house. He walked inside and he
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: came back and everything was gone.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the way it hasn't our. Our truck was
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  Speaker 4: part in this rightway in your driveway, in this driveway.
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  Speaker 2: And what type of truck was it? What type of
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  Speaker 2: truck was?
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  Speaker 4: It was a white I'll never forget it. It was like
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: a two thousand and five, two thousand and six white
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  Speaker 4: Dodge round two seater.
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  Speaker 2: To keep in the back.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, yep. Put the small equipment on the bed, put
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  Speaker 4: the one lawn moor on the trailer. I walked outside,
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  Speaker 4: I'm about to go to work, and I'm like, babe,
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  Speaker 4: where up truck it? He said, it's outside. I'll say, well,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: wait to park get it? He said, stop playing. I'm
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: not for the place to you. I'm not saying the
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: place to parked the car right outside? I said, oh, okay,
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: where you come look cause I don't see sure enough?
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  Speaker 4: It was not out there, blew everything up, blew everything up,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: had to start completely open. He wanted to quit, and
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I was like, no, we ain't gonna get nobody that
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  Speaker 4: much power because we still need to leave something to
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: these children. At that I only had one. We still
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: need to leave something to this kid. So we kept going.
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  Speaker 2: How did you recover from that? How did you recover
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: from that? Did you have to get loan? Did you
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: start one lawn more? Because the insurance cover your equipment,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: did it cover the vehicle that was stolen?
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  Speaker 4: The equipment was not covered. The vehicle was covered. So
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: we were able to get another truck with no problem.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: We just had to get equipment, so we have loan
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: for the equipment.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: We were talking about Miela Loved she's the CEO of
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Family Lawn Services. Mila, how can one get in touch
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  Speaker 2: with you?
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  Speaker 4: Eight hundred four six row five eight one more time
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  Speaker 4: eight hundred four six zero.
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  Speaker 2: Five eight and what is your website?
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  Speaker 4: The website is Family Lawn Services dot com.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this as we close out this interview,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: what do you think for your company? Is your strongest
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: strength as a company when it comes to lawn service
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  Speaker 2: abilities both residential.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: And commercial pass down, I would say the quality of work.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: My boys are out there showing out and I'm grateful
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: to them.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: So you're telling me, Rashaan McDonald, if you call Family
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Lawn Services and you want somebody to do the hedges,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: you know, get them all nice and round or squared off,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: you know, trim back the trees. I should be calling you.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, you should be calling me because I'm not gonna
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: mess up your bushes. Right why perfect wound? However you
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: like them?
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you something that's that's a skill that
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: is something I can't do. I've seen it done wrong
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: so and I've had tears in my eyes when it
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: was done wrong. But more importantly, you know, this is
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: a great interview from a standpoint of honesty. You talked
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: about the meditation. You talked about being a serial entrepreneur,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: multiple strings of income. You talked about stress. You talk
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: about overcoming the arts or walking away both you and
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: your husband, walking away from full time jobs. Being smart
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: enough to know that as you enter into the independent
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: entrepreneur space once you keep working and one should venture
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: into that task and then all the then all at
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: the top of it, when all was stolen from you,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: you didn't quit. That is real important advice that everybody
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: needs to hear. And I really appreciate you coming on
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Money Making Conversations Masterclass.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you Mela so much, mister McDonald for having me.
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  Speaker 4: I really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I enjodged seriously. You know, people come
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: on this show and they you know, I don't know
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: what they're going to talk about. I have a list
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: of things what I want to ask them. But your
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: conversation is one of the more honest conversations that people
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: need to hear about stress and how you deal with stress.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Because we are we live in a vacuum, especially African
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: American people of color. We want to be in denial.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: We want to walk around with high blood pressure, we
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: want to walk around with high cholesterol. And then suddenly
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: you look around and go what happened to Bill? What
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: happened to Jennifer? Because we didn't go to the doctor,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: because we didn't admit that stressful situations where it was
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: led to bad eating, physical or mental disorders, but your conversation.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I hope when people hear it, they hear enough to say,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: maybe I should listen and check in on what's happening here,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: because I really appreciate you coming on the show, because
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I believe you save some lives listening to this show
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: when one listens to his interview. Thank you, Mila.
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  Speaker 4: I hope so too. Thank you so much, mister McDonald.
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  Speaker 2: Cool, Okay, this is not all I want you to
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: stay here. This is Money Making Conversation Masterclass, and I'm
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: your host for Sean McDonald. Don't go anywhere.
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