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Russell Hornsby, Pamela Samuels Young, Prince Donnell & Sylvia Weddington · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Boston University and studied for a summer at the British
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Speaker 1: Academy of Dramatic Arts program at Oxford University. He's on
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Speaker 1: the show to Data talk about his new series, Lincoln
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Speaker 1: Ryan Hunt for the Bone Collector, which premieres Friday, January
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Speaker 1: tenth at eight pm. Eastern and Pacific seven pm Central, NBC.
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Speaker 1: Please work for the very first time the money making conversation,
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Speaker 1: Russell haunts me. Hey, hey, Russe, lay out there, man
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Speaker 1: lay you out there, Russell. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: You know, you know how to well you know. For also,
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Speaker 1: you know, first of all, congratulations on and I don't
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Speaker 1: say congratulated on what you have done, on what you
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Speaker 1: will be doing, because your resume has allowed you to
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Speaker 1: establish your your consistency and your authenticity as a as
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Speaker 1: a as a professional in this business. And we know
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Speaker 1: that's tough to do. We know it's tough to get
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Speaker 1: on with series at last, because sometimes you can't plan.
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Speaker 1: Talked to just before we get started into the interview
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Speaker 1: and everything, talk about your your experience in Hollywood and
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Speaker 1: the entertainment business a little bit. Well, you know, first
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Speaker 1: for me, first and foremost, what was most important to
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Speaker 1: me before and I said this, you know, just in retrospect,
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Speaker 1: was having studied as an actor. You know, you know,
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Speaker 1: you as you stated in the intro, studying at boxing
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Speaker 1: Boston University, getting my degree in theater arts, having an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to study at the British Academy for dramatic arts.
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Speaker 1: But more importantly for me was being able to spend
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Speaker 1: two years with August Wilson. Um. I'd like to say
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Speaker 1: that that time I spent with August doing the play
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Speaker 1: Jitney all over the country and then off Broadway gave
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Speaker 1: me my masters in life if you will, you know,
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Speaker 1: and in acting and in life. And so it prepared
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Speaker 1: me can be able to bring forth that that authenticity
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Speaker 1: and and have a depth of feeling and personality that feels,
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Speaker 1: you know, that can't be matched, that you can't um
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Speaker 1: manufactured it to begin, you, you know. And so it
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Speaker 1: helped me to understand who I was and who I am,
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Speaker 1: where I come from, so that I was able to
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Speaker 1: when I walked into el when I came to l A,
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Speaker 1: nobody could tell me who I was, you know, and
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Speaker 1: put that upart me. I already knew, and so I
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Speaker 1: had a clear understanding of that. And it's really really
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Speaker 1: impressive because it shows in your style of work. And uh,
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Speaker 1: I gotta tell you a little a little fun side story.
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Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith, good friend of mine, the talent that
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Speaker 1: manager as well, and we was on the phone before
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Speaker 1: this interview was even locked down, and he was saying hey,
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Speaker 1: we you. I got an idea, I go, what what's Steve?
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Speaker 1: What's I did? You got to day a? Man? Remember
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Speaker 1: that show on ESPN. Playmakers, playmakers? Man, we need to
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Speaker 1: bring them back, I said, I said, words of all
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Speaker 1: outstanding suggestion. But the pot is that may not want
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Speaker 1: to coming back because that's series right there. Man, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna tell you something, brother, incredibly uh you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: only eleven episodes are and but it is stuck, and
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Speaker 1: it's stuck in a part of Americana as great television,
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Speaker 1: authentic real television. Um, you know, just just just talk
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Speaker 1: about that experience a little bit, because from a viewer standpoint,
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Speaker 1: you know, to have him tell him talk to me
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Speaker 1: about that, you know, let him know that it's you
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Speaker 1: know that that because we always talked about producing different
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Speaker 1: television shows and different things that you can reboot. And
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Speaker 1: that's why I was That's why I was in discussion
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Speaker 1: about it. But man, that was an incredible uh television
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Speaker 1: production that was on ESPN. Were you know, ironically enough,
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Speaker 1: I while we were shooting together, Jess, after we finished shooting,
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Speaker 1: while it was airing, I ran into Stephen Ay in
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Speaker 1: Times Square just from the right there brother, your brother,
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Speaker 1: I love you on that show. Playmate man killing on
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Speaker 1: that show. And I was personally last comment person the
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Speaker 1: only time I've ever met Stephen A. Smith. But you know,
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Speaker 1: we just had an opportunity. John Issen draft and created
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Speaker 1: a show. I mean, he just he was just telling
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Speaker 1: the truth and as to what he saw, and he
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Speaker 1: gave an authentic portrayal of what was happening to athletes,
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Speaker 1: you know, in professional football. And you know, I appreciate
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Speaker 1: give it. Getting an opportunity to honestly to tell the truth,
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Speaker 1: you know, and not glamorized it and not sensationalizing and
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Speaker 1: not gloss it over. They were really coming from a
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Speaker 1: representational standpoint, honestly, and I think that's what really I
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Speaker 1: think that's what really resonated with audience absolutely which honest
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Speaker 1: and real it was. And it was also outstanding acting.
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Speaker 1: Outstanding acting did that because of the fact that I
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Speaker 1: always tell people in order to lack of show, you
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Speaker 1: have to be able to take the journey with the actor.
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Speaker 1: If the jack that's actors bring you in and and
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Speaker 1: you feel a relationship with him. And on that show,
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Speaker 1: I felt as a view and I felt a relationship
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Speaker 1: and it was a hit show. So yeah, I say
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Speaker 1: that because of the fact that you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: when you say you get the ratings back and you go, man,
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Speaker 1: we're hit, then you in your mind you think, oh man,
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Speaker 1: I've landed a jack pop and that is not not
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Speaker 1: Hollywood works sometimes, you know, you know, here's the show
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Speaker 1: had the numbers, was delivering the goods, the acting was great,
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Speaker 1: and it was and it went away that probably said
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Speaker 1: a tone for you with Hollywood that wow, what tough
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Speaker 1: time is real? Is not real? Correct? Absolutely? You know
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Speaker 1: what what you learned very early is that you know,
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Speaker 1: Hollywood is the business of show and it's it's it's
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Speaker 1: the business doesn't make sense. The show ain't gonna work right,
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Speaker 1: and there are a lot of people who have to
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Speaker 1: be happy, you know, when you put a show on
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Speaker 1: the air, or when you put a movie on the
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Speaker 1: screen or what how you and again, you're right, I
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Speaker 1: learned very early that nothing is guaranteed. But but also
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Speaker 1: though how I was reard how long was raised coming
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Speaker 1: from Oakland, being black in America, you know that that's
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Speaker 1: that's in me. So you never take anything for granted.
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Speaker 1: You you know, what's what what you all you can
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Speaker 1: go by is what you have today anymore is not
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Speaker 1: guaranteed and you can't depend on yesterday. Yeah, we're talking
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Speaker 1: to Russell Hornsby on his new series is coming out
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Speaker 1: in January on NBC. UM, let's talk about that character
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Speaker 1: because that you're playing in this When I was drawing
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Speaker 1: that's on NBC. Now we just talked about the series
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Speaker 1: that need ESPN. You were playing a running back, running back,
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Speaker 1: very athletic, very athletic. Now you're playing a character there's
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Speaker 1: a quadriplegic, and you know that's a you know, I
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Speaker 1: would try to wrap my head around how you how
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Speaker 1: you know because all your whole life been a physical life.
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Speaker 1: Walk us through the steps of preparation for a role
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Speaker 1: where it was about you know, your mind, your expressions
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Speaker 1: are really only going to be in your face, you know,
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Speaker 1: the delivery, the nuances of the tone. That had to
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Speaker 1: be a journey for you. Correct it really did. It
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Speaker 1: really was a journey, Rashan, and but one that I
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Speaker 1: was so willing to take, believe ready for quite honestly,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm an actor who I embraced the challenge
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Speaker 1: at sing in every level. Uh, you know, I was
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Speaker 1: a little nervous. You know, before taking it on, before
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Speaker 1: we began shooting, I had to be honest about that.
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Speaker 1: But I knew that I could do it. I knew
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Speaker 1: I was prepared because I knew that the Lord would
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Speaker 1: not put me in what they say, uh, they wun't.
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Speaker 1: He would drop me off here, what I mean. And
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Speaker 1: and so I knew that that that I was ready.
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Speaker 1: But for me, what had prepared me most quite honestly
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Speaker 1: for this role with my ability and my time in
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Speaker 1: school of working on Shakespeare, and also my time in
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Speaker 1: doing the plays of August Wilson, Because what we're when
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Speaker 1: we're when we're talking about see what well, I feel
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Speaker 1: that what Shakespeare does with the language is able to
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Speaker 1: bend the language. Right, you're talking about this high language
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Speaker 1: where all you're doing is using your words, my liege,
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Speaker 1: I did deny no prisoners. But I remember when the
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Speaker 1: fight was done, when I was dry with range and
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Speaker 1: extreme toil. Right. So so that's that's Shakespeare, right. But
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Speaker 1: then you have the beautiful expression of August Wilson. Right,
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Speaker 1: so you you marry the Bard and the Blues together.
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Speaker 1: So August says, I don't know about you and Leroy,
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Speaker 1: but Pernell made me kill him called me Champ. I
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Speaker 1: told him my name is King. He said, yeah, Champ.
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Speaker 1: I go on, I don't say nothing. You don't know.
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Speaker 1: My daddy killed the man for calling about his name.
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Speaker 1: He don't know. He messed with King heaving the second.
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Speaker 1: So that's with them now, hear what I mean? We
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Speaker 1: married the Bard and the Blues of August Wilson together.
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Speaker 1: Playmakers was in two thousand three. Come on that sixteen years.
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Speaker 1: I have seen you on TV consistently and the movies consistently.
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Speaker 1: So when you walk on that set, remember this, Russell.
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Speaker 1: All the energy is being produced by you, and it
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Speaker 1: just permeates to the rest of the cast because they
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Speaker 1: have to step up to your resume. They have to
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Speaker 1: step up to your work ethic. And I think it's
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Speaker 1: beautiful because on this particular series you can't even move.
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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, that's right. You know, nothing happened
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Speaker 1: by accidents. Um, A wise man and dear friend of mine,
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Speaker 1: Stephen Henderson, used to tell me things don't just happen.
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Speaker 1: Things happen to Jess And it happened by virtue of
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Speaker 1: the work that you put in your willingness to do
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Speaker 1: the work. But I have to honestly, we brought, We
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Speaker 1: brought his re raised his name earlier. I have to
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Speaker 1: give a lot of kudos to Denzel Washington, and the
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Speaker 1: reason being is that I had the opportunity to do
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Speaker 1: in to do to being part of the revival offenses
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Speaker 1: on Broadway, and and then to be able to come
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Speaker 1: back six years later and do the film, to be
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Speaker 1: hand kicked by him the have a game to do
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Speaker 1: this film and give me a chance to share the
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Speaker 1: stage and the screen with one of I think the
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Speaker 1: greatest actors got for breath in honestly, and it said
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Speaker 1: to me, it instilled me with confidence, that said, you
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Speaker 1: are here, so don't retreat back, you forward. And it
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Speaker 1: was the who he said. He says, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: You're supposed to be here because I because I remember
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Speaker 1: asking him. I said no. I remember saying to him
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Speaker 1: when we're the first day of shoot against him a
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Speaker 1: d thank you, thank you for what I said, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, because for having to be here, you know,
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Speaker 1: forgetting me the opportunity. Brother, I didn't give you nothing
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Speaker 1: and you earned it. There you go, that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm supposed to be here. That from that
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Speaker 1: that just told me everything I needed to know and
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Speaker 1: everything I needed to hear. Well, Russell, he just validated
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Speaker 1: Roshan McDonald. That's all I was saying about your brother.
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Speaker 1: That's all I was saying about YO, your your career.
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Speaker 1: It validates anytime you're walking to say now you're humble.
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Speaker 1: This makes you say thank you. What we all should do.
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Speaker 1: We should all not assume that that happened because who
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Speaker 1: I am, because people can look the other way. But no,
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Speaker 1: my man, you're special. He's starting on my he's starting
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Speaker 1: on Money Making Conversation right now, but he's gonna be
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Speaker 1: starting on NBC Lincoln Ryan Hump for The Bone Collector,
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Speaker 1: which your premier is Friday, January tenth, at eight pm
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Speaker 1: Eastern and Pacific seven pm Central on NBC. My man, Russell,
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Speaker 1: thank you for coming on my show. I hope you
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Speaker 1: understand that, brother, I'm a fan, but also do my
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Speaker 1: homework because I know what you do and what you deliver. Brother,
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Speaker 1: Thanks you so much for taking the time. I really
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Speaker 1: appreciated the pleasure meeting you, and thank you for I
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Speaker 1: know what? And I don't you know. I grew up
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Speaker 1: is that what you do? Because because the people that
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Speaker 1: because I um, I I've read earlier on my mother
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Speaker 1: And I saw different worlds. I saw a world that
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Speaker 1: was different from mine. And to be honest with you,
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Speaker 1: as a young team, I saw my mother. Women in
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Speaker 1: my mother's lives. I saw how um not having their
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Speaker 1: of one of my aunt tustmans became an alcoholic. Another one,
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Speaker 1: let's just tell it all molested, what a lested a
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Speaker 1: ends up in the projects. I mean, I just saw
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Speaker 1: all these women. Well, I had a stable life, family life,
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Speaker 1: I gotta be able to be able to have my
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Speaker 1: you know, because when I went So what did you
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Speaker 1: Okay I um. I had a chance as at a
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Speaker 1: Tempton High School or to spend a summer at USC.
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Speaker 1: I think as a tenth or eleven grade, Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: sights on USC. I don't think I applied to but
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Speaker 1: a couple of other schools and I got into USC
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Speaker 1: and that was that world. Um. And you know, I
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Speaker 1: didn't go to law school till I was thirty. I
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Speaker 1: finished UM, I said undergraduate and I pursued UH journalism
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Speaker 1: and I worked in TV for a while. But I
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Speaker 1: had always wanted to go to UM law school. But
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Speaker 1: I didn't know any lawyers. I didn't see any lawyers.
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Speaker 1: And it took me, uh, seven years after after graduating,
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Speaker 1: eight years to say, U um, I can do this
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Speaker 1: because I didn't have a confidence then. You know, there
20:03
Speaker 1: were no lawyers in my family, so I don't think
20:05
Speaker 1: I ain't even talked to a lawyer before making that decision.
20:08
Speaker 1: But one day and I had a real bad day
20:10
Speaker 1: in the newsroom. The K didn't come up. A producer
20:12
Speaker 1: yelled at me, and something and something just said pick
20:14
Speaker 1: up the phone. We're gonna do this. And we go
20:16
Speaker 1: back in the days when I was a news writer.
20:18
Speaker 1: News writer were still using the type writers and think
20:22
Speaker 1: of the phone called it called what do I need
20:24
Speaker 1: to go to law school? Take? You gotta take the
20:25
Speaker 1: laws demission tests. I went to Barnes and Noble about
20:27
Speaker 1: a study guide. I had three weeks before that last
20:29
Speaker 1: test at the end of the year to study for it.
20:31
Speaker 1: Study study, study, study, and got in got decent enough
20:34
Speaker 1: score to get into UC Berkeley. So you know, and
20:37
Speaker 1: and I had wanted to go all those years, but
20:40
Speaker 1: nothing moved me until just getting the day. It's like,
20:42
Speaker 1: I don't you know what I need to do this?
20:44
Speaker 1: And I was an older lawsuit most of my most
20:46
Speaker 1: of classmates for twenty five and under when I was
20:48
Speaker 1: in law school, and it was it was actually a
20:50
Speaker 1: great thing that I was thirty because I was more
20:52
Speaker 1: serious about it. I took it. You know, it was
20:54
Speaker 1: just and it wasn't And even when I get interviewed
20:56
Speaker 1: for jobs, because what you didn't mention I spent my
20:58
Speaker 1: last twenty five years working is the in house council
21:00
Speaker 1: for Toyota and what um what? Then going to LU
21:06
Speaker 1: schools older student was a great thing because I think
21:08
Speaker 1: it was a lot more mature, right right, right right.
21:12
Speaker 1: You know. The thing about it is that being a
21:15
Speaker 1: leader that made the age can often times to make
21:17
Speaker 1: you the leader, the natural leader. And because people are
21:20
Speaker 1: looking at you saying you have experiences that allow you
21:24
Speaker 1: to look different, walk different, talk different. And so when
21:27
Speaker 1: I went out, I'm going through your bario they say
21:29
Speaker 1: you're you're a frequent speaker on these topics, which are
21:32
Speaker 1: really extreme topics that need to be talked about, child
21:36
Speaker 1: sex trafficking, bullying, online safety, fiction, writing, self empowerment, and
21:43
Speaker 1: pursuing your passion. Let's break this down a little bit.
21:47
Speaker 1: Why are you speaking on child sex trafficking? You know
21:53
Speaker 1: the book that want to end up apt In Image Award.
21:56
Speaker 1: The idea for that came out of a conversation with
21:58
Speaker 1: the guy back in out No. Two thousands, ten or
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Speaker 1: eleven who said kids were being trafficked in the US
22:02
Speaker 1: and when nobody was talking about child, that's ex trafficking man,
22:06
Speaker 1: And like, what are you talking about? No, no no, no,
22:07
Speaker 1: that's in Mexico, that's the Philippines as Russia. And he said,
22:11
Speaker 1: none of no, the games, the games of trafficking girls.
22:13
Speaker 1: And so I went home and began to research it
22:16
Speaker 1: and I was like, it blew me away, and it
22:18
Speaker 1: was happening in our communities and nobody was talking about it,
22:21
Speaker 1: and that formed the idea for anybody's daughter. Just like
22:24
Speaker 1: um Christmas Day last year, friends to me an article
22:28
Speaker 1: about two nine year old girls who had hanged themselves,
22:31
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what nine years old? How? What? How
22:35
Speaker 1: does the nine year old know how to hang themselves?
22:37
Speaker 1: And I ended up researching that and learning at the
22:40
Speaker 1: suicide rate for African American kids. I'm near the age
22:43
Speaker 1: of twelve, it's twice that of like kids, what what? What?
22:46
Speaker 1: Why could that be? And that brought me to right
22:49
Speaker 1: story to protect I mean, while I like I like
22:51
Speaker 1: legal thrillers. Um, but I also like to teach something
22:55
Speaker 1: in my book. So UM, I try to give you
22:57
Speaker 1: a good mystery, a good legal story at the same
23:00
Speaker 1: time teach you something. And I think I've done that.
23:03
Speaker 1: And before I get too for us, say I want to.
23:05
Speaker 1: I don't think you remember we have a we have
23:07
Speaker 1: a personal connection, you and I because two of my
23:10
Speaker 1: closest friends are Say Henderson and Taraph Come on that
23:14
Speaker 1: in some family. You really need to stop talking about
23:17
Speaker 1: my sisters like that in public now. And you don't
23:21
Speaker 1: remember back in two thousand three were you and I
23:25
Speaker 1: were sitting in a Felicia Henderson's backyard at a party.
23:28
Speaker 1: Had to be two thus three or four there was
23:30
Speaker 1: in Pasadena, in Pasadena. In Pasadena, I had just gotten
23:34
Speaker 1: my first book deal, and I was not happy. I
23:37
Speaker 1: was not happy with the amount of money and I
23:40
Speaker 1: had and you and I was thinking about turning it down.
23:42
Speaker 1: And you said, you said the following to me. You said,
23:46
Speaker 1: you said, if you only got one book to write,
23:48
Speaker 1: get your foot in the door and take that. You know,
23:51
Speaker 1: if you've only got one book to write, turn down
23:53
Speaker 1: that deal and go back and shop it and get
23:55
Speaker 1: the best of you can't say if you got twenty
23:57
Speaker 1: thirty books in you take that deal, get your foot
23:59
Speaker 1: in the door, and you can you can make more money.
24:01
Speaker 1: Later you said, you said, did anybody else offer your
24:03
Speaker 1: books there? And I was like, no, said you need
24:05
Speaker 1: to get your foot in that door. And what I
24:11
Speaker 1: can't do. Man, ninety sixteen years later, you and I
24:14
Speaker 1: are talking about money making conversations because if I have
24:17
Speaker 1: turned down that deal, who who knew when my next
24:19
Speaker 1: deal would have come? Well, you know this is first
24:23
Speaker 1: of all, I love your energy. We was talking to
24:25
Speaker 1: you know, my producers in the room when they listened
24:27
Speaker 1: to the show as well. We love your energy. First
24:29
Speaker 1: of all, You're just a natural passion that is crazy good.
24:33
Speaker 1: But you know I remember that because Felicia, that's my
24:36
Speaker 1: I call him my baby sister, uh taught me how
24:39
Speaker 1: to write titcom. You know. Then you have you have
24:43
Speaker 1: Saraphiny Johnson, who I think saved my career. You know,
24:46
Speaker 1: she brought me on to the Parkers as a consultant
24:51
Speaker 1: at the time where I didn't know where I was,
24:52
Speaker 1: and that right and I was right when I right
24:54
Speaker 1: before when I started managing Steve Harvey and basically the
24:57
Speaker 1: rest is history. How how impacted television and radio, social
25:02
Speaker 1: media with him a young adult version of failure to
25:05
Speaker 1: protect goals on sale this month? Now, will you send
25:08
Speaker 1: me a link of banners so I can put on
25:09
Speaker 1: my social media? I will absolutely do that. And what
25:12
Speaker 1: I'm doing is, I'm doing my own version of cyber Monday's.
25:16
Speaker 1: Like I have Paddler Bell in there. I got a
25:18
Speaker 1: girl Loney Love and there, I got Tina Live for
25:20
Speaker 1: she has a great book that I have in there,
25:22
Speaker 1: and and uh so I'm doing my best. I got
25:25
Speaker 1: a ninety seven thousand fan club members, that's just that.
25:28
Speaker 1: Then I got over eight hundred thousand fan club Facebook members,
25:32
Speaker 1: so I got that. I got the Instagram, I got
25:34
Speaker 1: the Twitter. So I'm just letting you know, Pamela, we
25:37
Speaker 1: met in the backyard. In that backyard many years ago.
25:40
Speaker 1: Felicia Henderson, still my girl, Sarah Finished, still my little sister.
25:46
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you right now, I'm so proud of
25:48
Speaker 1: what you accomplishing. My job right now is to continue
25:51
Speaker 1: you down that path of success. So whatever you give
25:53
Speaker 1: me and asked me to do for you, I honestly
25:56
Speaker 1: will tell you right now I will do it for you. Okay,
25:58
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I'm off excited that the audiobook
26:01
Speaker 1: goes on selfs month. I'm I'm I'm still a couple
26:04
Speaker 1: of weeks away from the young adult. But the audiobook
26:07
Speaker 1: goes on sale in ten days. Young actor Larry Hearn
26:10
Speaker 1: is my narrator. Okay, cool, get the link to me
26:13
Speaker 1: in ten days so we can put it out there
26:15
Speaker 1: and get it sold. And like I said in January,
26:16
Speaker 1: I wanna put another one out, so like to the day,
26:19
Speaker 1: I have one going out. I'm with you. She's on
26:23
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Speaker 1: due part of that is a Danis Channel. Fantastic, tastic,
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Speaker 1: definitely gotta get on the show. In the vision is
29:03
Speaker 1: behind Jumping Jack Taxes. They're the largest black owners under
29:07
Speaker 1: the ages of twenty five of a tax corporation in America.
29:10
Speaker 1: They want to make entrepreneurship possible, creating generational wealth by
29:15
Speaker 1: serving the communities we come from and providing success through
29:19
Speaker 1: financial literacy. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation for the
29:22
Speaker 1: first time, Prince Donelle. Thanks for having me you you
29:26
Speaker 1: made me sound amazing. Well, y'all, y'all you know, first
29:30
Speaker 1: of all, I can tell you this. I always tell
29:31
Speaker 1: people because I'm in the process of writing the book
29:33
Speaker 1: prints and not tell people that you know you understand
29:37
Speaker 1: your your vision and your passion in your early twenties,
29:41
Speaker 1: and because I always tell people stop in your fifties
29:44
Speaker 1: stop acting like you care reach your dreams if you
29:46
Speaker 1: really if you're not happy with your life, go back
29:48
Speaker 1: to in your early twenties when you had that past
29:50
Speaker 1: your eighteen, when you before people told you that wasn't
29:53
Speaker 1: a good path to go under, before you got married,
29:55
Speaker 1: before you move somewhere, before you have some some casualty
29:58
Speaker 1: or catastrophe in your life deviated you from your dream.
30:01
Speaker 1: Guess what you and your wife Dana or in that
30:04
Speaker 1: age group that I'm talking about all the time that
30:07
Speaker 1: understands the passion, the direction and you're living in right now.
30:10
Speaker 1: So you are awesome, my friend. You are. I appreciate you,
30:15
Speaker 1: appreciate you, So tell me about that when I mentioned that.
30:19
Speaker 1: A little little history here. Last time I ran into
30:21
Speaker 1: you was at the HBCU week where ESPN Stephen A. Smith,
30:25
Speaker 1: Magic Johnson, the madatro Vincent was down there and we
30:28
Speaker 1: were showing everybody about the experience of HBCU. There was
30:32
Speaker 1: no sporting event, and afterwards we had a college fair
30:35
Speaker 1: where you can get own the spot registration and at
30:38
Speaker 1: that college fair, over students were registered and accepted on
30:42
Speaker 1: the spot and they were over nearly four million dollars
30:45
Speaker 1: in scholarships that were distributed to the students. Uh, probably
30:49
Speaker 1: about a little bit of the five hundred got those scholarships.
30:52
Speaker 1: And Dana was there not only promoting that the event
30:55
Speaker 1: was happening, but she was speaking at the event. And
30:57
Speaker 1: that's how we connected. And I said, hey, you said riche,
31:00
Speaker 1: are you gonna put them on the show? As a man?
31:01
Speaker 1: Come on that? Come come on now now since that
31:06
Speaker 1: it happens, what's been happening since I last saw you.
31:08
Speaker 1: Let's get a little catch up and now you're on
31:10
Speaker 1: the show now and what's gonna happen in absolutely so,
31:14
Speaker 1: first and foremost, I appreciate you for having me on
31:16
Speaker 1: the show. Um, it was awesome meeting you and being
31:20
Speaker 1: at that event. So much poultry that was in the room.
31:23
Speaker 1: And basically since then, from September until now, we've been
31:27
Speaker 1: so locked in going into tax season. I think the
31:30
Speaker 1: last time that I met you, we've had over a
31:32
Speaker 1: three hundred plus license jumping Jack tax partners around the country,
31:37
Speaker 1: and now between September and December we have doubled from
31:40
Speaker 1: three hundred and six hundred licensed partners around the country. UM,
31:43
Speaker 1: so it's been it's been totally amazing. The energy has
31:48
Speaker 1: been ridiculous. We were literally shaping the way that people
31:53
Speaker 1: are now looking at the tax industry. And I love
31:56
Speaker 1: it because we're one of the only companies that has
31:58
Speaker 1: ever done it where just through culture and just through
32:01
Speaker 1: being ourselves, we're now making it fun for the everyday
32:05
Speaker 1: person that is in our communities, that younger individual to say, Hey,
32:09
Speaker 1: I'm taking taxes serious. I want to learn about taxes
32:11
Speaker 1: because of the biggest thing is if I got to
32:15
Speaker 1: literally pay taxes for the rest of my life, why
32:18
Speaker 1: not learn how to do it? And it's not something
32:21
Speaker 1: that we're taught at schools. And that's where Jumping Jack
32:23
Speaker 1: Taxes now filling that void to not just provide that
32:27
Speaker 1: everyday person in our community with the opportunity be able
32:30
Speaker 1: to start a tax business, right, but now offer that
32:33
Speaker 1: same everyday person the education by connecting them with the
32:36
Speaker 1: tax professional and a billion dollar industry. Because people don't
32:40
Speaker 1: know that this this this thing makes billions of dollars
32:42
Speaker 1: here and uh, I don't like to you know, I
32:44
Speaker 1: don't like to name drop a lot of big companies,
32:46
Speaker 1: but you know the corporate tax companies that are out there,
32:49
Speaker 1: but they make billions of dollars inside of our communities
32:52
Speaker 1: year over year over year over year. From January through April,
32:56
Speaker 1: they closed the gate and then they leave you. You You
32:58
Speaker 1: don't see them again until December to the five right December,
33:01
Speaker 1: right after Christmas, and they open back up. But how
33:04
Speaker 1: many of them are actually pouring back into the community
33:07
Speaker 1: from the billions of dollars that they take? How many
33:09
Speaker 1: of them are actually educating the customer based on why this? Why?
33:13
Speaker 1: Why do you? Why are you even getting a tax
33:15
Speaker 1: return to begin with, and how are you strategically using
33:18
Speaker 1: that money to make investments so you can be financially free.
33:21
Speaker 1: And that's where Jumping Jack tax is coming in, because
33:23
Speaker 1: we're shifting that in this entire industry up. Well, what
33:25
Speaker 1: you're doing is that, first of all, can you can
33:28
Speaker 1: you explain us the business the business model of Jumping
33:30
Speaker 1: Jack Taxes before I start asking questions? Absolutely so, Jumping
33:34
Speaker 1: Jack Tax is a licensing company. A lot of us
33:37
Speaker 1: will look at us as a franchise, and for those
33:39
Speaker 1: that are listening, there's a big difference between licensing and franchise.
33:42
Speaker 1: To me, a franchise is pretty much you're glorified employee.
33:46
Speaker 1: They provide you with the business plan and for example
33:49
Speaker 1: of semi Donalds McDonald's provides you with that business plan.
33:52
Speaker 1: As the franchise, you've probably got to have a million
33:54
Speaker 1: dollars in liquid assets to even buy into the franchise,
33:57
Speaker 1: and when you do, and have to be done exactly
34:00
Speaker 1: the way that they say. The milkshake machine gotta be
34:02
Speaker 1: the same way the fries machine gotta be over there.
34:04
Speaker 1: Everything gotta be done that way in order gonna shut
34:06
Speaker 1: you down. Now, was licensing, which is one of the
34:10
Speaker 1: biggest billion dollar industries in the world. UH. Just to
34:13
Speaker 1: talk about licensing a little bit, Walt Disney is the
34:16
Speaker 1: biggest licenser in the world. They be over fifty billion
34:18
Speaker 1: and licensing a year where literally you licensed out your
34:21
Speaker 1: name to uh to somebody, they pay for the licensing
34:24
Speaker 1: and they're able to use your name to make money
34:26
Speaker 1: because you've built up a big enough brand. We went
34:29
Speaker 1: into the licensing industry with Jumping Jack Tax to where
34:32
Speaker 1: now people, the everyday person can use the Jumping Jack
34:35
Speaker 1: Tax brand that we've built up all over the internet,
34:37
Speaker 1: all over the country with national branding to now be
34:40
Speaker 1: able to add that to their tax business. And now
34:42
Speaker 1: they're able to get customers through that. So we pretty
34:45
Speaker 1: much enroll you an online tax prep school, give you
34:48
Speaker 1: to all the knowledge and education that you need on
34:50
Speaker 1: basic tax law. We show you how to market your
34:52
Speaker 1: tax business. And we've built our own mobile application where
34:55
Speaker 1: we've created an ecosystem and a customer base to where
34:59
Speaker 1: we're literally sending all of our text all of our
35:01
Speaker 1: tax licensed partners leads that are in their area. So
35:05
Speaker 1: when somebody downloads the app, is going to pull their
35:07
Speaker 1: zip code and it's going to connect them with the
35:09
Speaker 1: closest jumping jack tax professional in their area. So we
35:12
Speaker 1: built up every single person that's a license of our
35:15
Speaker 1: company with the ability to be a tax professional. Many
35:17
Speaker 1: of them have not even come in with that experience.
35:19
Speaker 1: That's amazing because right now you give them credibility. That's
35:22
Speaker 1: what you are, your credibility brand and allows people to
35:26
Speaker 1: go onto this app and say I'm in Houston, Texas.
35:29
Speaker 1: Go to Houston, Texas and you'll see people that have
35:31
Speaker 1: who've subscribed and a license to your brand. And how
35:34
Speaker 1: do you vet them, Prince? How do you vet them?
35:38
Speaker 1: The the people who are coming over to us to
35:41
Speaker 1: start their tax business. Yes, I'll tell you a crazy story.
35:45
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't believe this is when we
35:48
Speaker 1: had first started licensing about a year ago, I literally
35:53
Speaker 1: spoke to every single person on the phone, but over
35:57
Speaker 1: six hundred plus partners. I literally sold all too, about
36:00
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty to three hundred before we even
36:03
Speaker 1: started adding um others sells people onto the team. So
36:08
Speaker 1: I would it was. It would be days where I'm
36:10
Speaker 1: literally on the phone from seven a m. In the
36:12
Speaker 1: morning all the way u until ten o'clock PM, about
36:14
Speaker 1: to close my eyes and sleep because I'm selling every
36:17
Speaker 1: single person individually. I based my sales process, not yourself
36:20
Speaker 1: the income, but off of money. Your thought process is
36:23
Speaker 1: very clean, and you approach this from a business perspective,
36:27
Speaker 1: and also you understand that the opportunities to go beyond
36:30
Speaker 1: just making a dollar, but turning that dollar around to
36:33
Speaker 1: to recycle it within the community. Now that photo, that
36:36
Speaker 1: that video that I was talking about this on the
36:37
Speaker 1: cover of the website, a lot of young people were
36:41
Speaker 1: and that that is that is your brand being built
36:44
Speaker 1: through the through the through the younger community. And that
36:47
Speaker 1: is the craziest part about it is And and I'm
36:50
Speaker 1: still surprised and not understanding to this day how sixty
36:54
Speaker 1: five per cent of our company would jumping jack tags
36:58
Speaker 1: are our individuals under the age of twenty eight years old.
37:04
Speaker 1: This is a lot of young people on this phote
37:06
Speaker 1: out here, look like tell you and and and people
37:11
Speaker 1: ask me, you don what is the secret? How did
37:13
Speaker 1: you get younger folks to want to believe in a
37:15
Speaker 1: tax business and not even understanding is because they weren't
37:19
Speaker 1: believing in the tax business in the age of social media.
37:23
Speaker 1: Right now, they're believing in a person. We live in
37:26
Speaker 1: the age of influencer marketing right now. Well we've never
37:29
Speaker 1: stopped living in the age of influencer marketing. You take
37:31
Speaker 1: a look look at the insurance industry. Everybody knows flow,
37:35
Speaker 1: Progressive the lover. That's the reason why Progressives has increased
37:38
Speaker 1: by billion dollars when they added flow to their commercials.
37:41
Speaker 1: The same thing here. You have to be the influencer
37:44
Speaker 1: of your brand and when people believe in that, they're
37:46
Speaker 1: going to follow whatever it is you do. But it
37:49
Speaker 1: comes with the level of responsibility. So so many younger people,
37:52
Speaker 1: a lot of them are coming out of college. And
37:54
Speaker 1: of course you may you know this as well, that
37:57
Speaker 1: college that is number one in the country, that's right
38:00
Speaker 1: now forty is projected that by two thousand twenty three
38:05
Speaker 1: of all college kids that graduated with college that are
38:08
Speaker 1: going to be in default right if we're at over
38:11
Speaker 1: a billion dollars in debt, which means that we have
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39:38
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39:48
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40:22
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42:22
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42:25
Speaker 1: my guests who is sitting across from me and I
42:28
Speaker 1: guess we kind of like bonded recently because we became
42:30
Speaker 1: members of the same Council, National Council. We're talking about
42:33
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42:39
Speaker 1: Weddington Waitington Realty. Correct, My next guest employs a diverse
42:44
Speaker 1: staff of professionals, many of whom are multi lingual, which
42:48
Speaker 1: is an assets when dealing with international clients, which lets
42:50
Speaker 1: you know she's worldwide. You know she's not some domestic.
42:53
Speaker 1: She is also licensed realtor, licensed realtor in three stags, Georgia, Florida,
42:58
Speaker 1: in Texas because you live in Houston as well, right, Correct,
43:01
Speaker 1: I'm actually a real estate broker. Broke. That's what I
43:04
Speaker 1: only show was just educated show because because I want
43:07
Speaker 1: to know I bought enough homes, I'm gonna what's the
43:09
Speaker 1: real estate broker? We get all that, you know, because
43:12
Speaker 1: I learned from my guests as well, So you know
43:14
Speaker 1: that I know a lot and I will tell people
43:16
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it at all, but then I also
43:18
Speaker 1: ask questions about what I don't know. So the only
43:19
Speaker 1: difference is is that a real estate broker can own
43:23
Speaker 1: a brokerage and higher agents. Every agent has to have
43:26
Speaker 1: a broker Okay, Okay, cool. Okay, she's just even said
43:31
Speaker 1: her name yet, you know she's you know, that's what
43:34
Speaker 1: That's why I don't have studio guests right now right
43:37
Speaker 1: that the last two year guest of the year right here, right.
43:43
Speaker 1: She also follows me of social media because she knows
43:46
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43:48
Speaker 1: Please work with the money making conversations, Silvia Weddington, Thank you.
43:52
Speaker 1: How you doing well? Good here? Look fashionably, got your
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43:58
Speaker 1: look you You know, I always telling people people say
44:01
Speaker 1: you look nice to this. I know where the mirror is.
44:03
Speaker 1: That it's there's a purpose in my house. And so
44:07
Speaker 1: that's what I tell people. They compliment me, and I
44:09
Speaker 1: take that compliment in a very you know, a humble manner,
44:13
Speaker 1: because you know, people don't have to say nice things
44:15
Speaker 1: about you. That's right, thank you. And so when I
44:17
Speaker 1: look at your company, was talking about a broker and
44:19
Speaker 1: a realtor, because you're all all these shows on TV,
44:22
Speaker 1: you know, you know, fix this, flip this. Are are
44:26
Speaker 1: you one of those people? I'm not one of those people.
44:30
Speaker 1: You're not flipping inping and you're not going in by
44:33
Speaker 1: the house for a hundred thousand and then tear thousand
44:36
Speaker 1: walls and no, but I help people do that, Okay,
44:39
Speaker 1: we help people do that. So we definitely particularly in
44:43
Speaker 1: the area in the around the Mercedes Bend Stadium, that's
44:47
Speaker 1: a hot area for people to go in and fix
44:50
Speaker 1: something and flip it and try to flip in. So
44:52
Speaker 1: so what that means that the we're watching enough television
44:55
Speaker 1: means you buy the home at this rate and do
44:57
Speaker 1: do they do fix it up? Right? They do fix
45:00
Speaker 1: that in the purpose of fixing it up under a
45:01
Speaker 1: certain fee so they can sell it for some type
45:04
Speaker 1: of profit exactly, and that you'll do it, but you
45:07
Speaker 1: know clients. I know clients. I have clients that do that.
45:10
Speaker 1: So I'll take them out to preview the property and
45:13
Speaker 1: they will decide whether or not they want to purchase
45:15
Speaker 1: that property, and they know what the budget is of
45:17
Speaker 1: what they want are wanting to add into that property,
45:20
Speaker 1: and then they purchase the property and go in and
45:24
Speaker 1: fix it and they either most of the time they
45:27
Speaker 1: lease it out or sometimes they sell it. Now here's
45:31
Speaker 1: isn't it? You said Florida? You said Georgia and Texas? Correct?
45:35
Speaker 1: Why three locations for your company, Well, um, we are
45:39
Speaker 1: a global company. And the three locations because because I
45:42
Speaker 1: lived in Texas, that's where I started, and we moved
45:45
Speaker 1: around a bit. So I started, I moved to Atlanta,
45:50
Speaker 1: and you know, so I needed to have a license
45:53
Speaker 1: here as well, so I kept Texas and then and
45:57
Speaker 1: then it's also a place where a lot of people
46:00
Speaker 1: who are athletes get traded to. So it's easier for
46:04
Speaker 1: me to be licensed in those states. Plus I know
46:06
Speaker 1: the layer of the land right now. I know Texas
46:09
Speaker 1: is a is a no tax state. Georgia is a
46:12
Speaker 1: tax state. Florida is a no tax state. Correct. Correct. However,
46:16
Speaker 1: in Texas, the property taxes extremely um inflated, so you
46:23
Speaker 1: may not have other taxes, but that property will get
46:26
Speaker 1: you and that does not go away. And that's the
46:28
Speaker 1: thing we let people know that the property tax, you know,
46:30
Speaker 1: everything else, even the mortgage will go away, but the
46:32
Speaker 1: property tax does not. Okay, So, so so talk about
46:36
Speaker 1: walkers through your business because you have different layers. So
46:39
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do a disservice in act like you
46:40
Speaker 1: do just one thing, because you have a concierge part
46:43
Speaker 1: of your business as well. So we're talking about realty
46:48
Speaker 1: being a realtor or broker. You're broker, right, Okay, cool?
46:52
Speaker 1: So talk about how do you do your conduct your
46:54
Speaker 1: business in three different states. Well, um, I have a
46:58
Speaker 1: lot of frequent flyer moms. Um, so I probably can't
47:03
Speaker 1: be too uh. But one of one of the ways
47:06
Speaker 1: that we do our business is that we, um we
47:10
Speaker 1: are have a concert or service that if you were
47:12
Speaker 1: buying a house, uh, anywhere in the world, we would
47:15
Speaker 1: go and preview that house for you and and narrow
47:18
Speaker 1: down to three to five properties and when you are
47:21
Speaker 1: ready to maybe go to where it is, it could
47:25
Speaker 1: be in Russia, it could be here in the United States. Uh,
47:28
Speaker 1: we would meet you there. Russia. Yeah, in Russia. Yeah,
47:32
Speaker 1: I have clients in Russia. They mainly buy a lot
47:35
Speaker 1: in Miami. So but yeah, you can come to Russia.
47:38
Speaker 1: We could go to China, we could go anywhere in
47:40
Speaker 1: the world. And um we are we have a global
47:44
Speaker 1: Russian trip. Yeah. I don't have a lot of those
47:49
Speaker 1: because I have two teenagers, so that that that cuts
47:51
Speaker 1: down a lot of That's how we made on just
47:55
Speaker 1: a little back stories that we went to orientation together
47:58
Speaker 1: the National Minorities Supply Development Council or m b E
48:02
Speaker 1: and I know why I will. I'm trying to Uh.
48:06
Speaker 1: First of all, I wanted my company, which is third
48:08
Speaker 1: fifteen Media. You can go to media dot com and
48:11
Speaker 1: you can see I do talent management that I have,
48:14
Speaker 1: I do live Advance, I do marketing and branding. So
48:18
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find out in Cree relationships within the
48:21
Speaker 1: industry nationally and especially in Georgia, telling people what I
48:25
Speaker 1: do and and so what what what what? What was
48:29
Speaker 1: your purpose of joining the council? My purpose was to
48:33
Speaker 1: be able to meet people like you, um and people
48:36
Speaker 1: who were serious about their business because, as you know,
48:38
Speaker 1: it takes They don't just let you walk in the door.
48:42
Speaker 1: It's a long drawn out process and you know, in
48:45
Speaker 1: a strong vetting process. So when you know when you
48:48
Speaker 1: walk into a room with the people who actually took
48:52
Speaker 1: the time to invest in getting that certification that they're
48:57
Speaker 1: serious about their business, and you know, just to be
49:00
Speaker 1: able to work and network with other business owners like myself,
49:04
Speaker 1: well you know, that's that's really what this is all about.
49:06
Speaker 1: Because I was a number of our organizations usually part
49:09
Speaker 1: of is a member of the World e r C,
49:12
Speaker 1: which the Employee Relocation Council, and then you're also a
49:16
Speaker 1: member of the Global Mobilities your Global Mobility Specialists. So
49:22
Speaker 1: when I'm going through your bio, I'm seeing that you
49:25
Speaker 1: understand being connected and being and being in these relationships
49:29
Speaker 1: and create an environment. Because quite frankly, that's why you're
49:32
Speaker 1: on this show right now, because we went to the
49:34
Speaker 1: same council. Otherwise you wouldn't be on this show. So
49:37
Speaker 1: this is extending your brand outside of what you would
49:40
Speaker 1: normally do comfortably. Yes, absolutely, absolutely, and then that's what
49:46
Speaker 1: this is all about. This may lead to something else,
49:48
Speaker 1: it may not, but it's still brand development, brand exposure,
49:53
Speaker 1: and that's what it's all about with your brand. How
49:55
Speaker 1: long have you been in this type of business. I've
49:57
Speaker 1: been in this business for twenty years. And it takes
49:59
Speaker 1: a long time to build a real estate business, particularly
50:02
Speaker 1: because in real estate people see you as competition, and
50:06
Speaker 1: so there's not a lot of people who will kind
50:08
Speaker 1: of reach out across the aisles to help you, and
50:12
Speaker 1: you kind of have to. You say, you don't listen
50:14
Speaker 1: to other people's stories because it's not yours, and that's
50:17
Speaker 1: very true. However, you know, sometimes you don't see a
50:21
Speaker 1: lot of that in real estate because they just don't
50:24
Speaker 1: do it, you know, they like um, you know, like no,
50:27
Speaker 1: you know this is that to you out there? How
50:30
Speaker 1: do you get your hustle on? I've knowing that you
50:32
Speaker 1: have no mentors? Yeah, well actually I do. Okay. One
50:38
Speaker 1: of my mentors is one who I've absolutely never met,
50:41
Speaker 1: ness Tyler Perry. I read a lot. I read all
50:43
Speaker 1: of his things and you know how he was successful,
50:46
Speaker 1: and it's certainly different because we're two different things. But
50:49
Speaker 1: you know what I like most is that he says,
50:51
Speaker 1: you know, whatever you're gonna do, just step out and
50:54
Speaker 1: and and do it. You know, if you're gonna start,
50:56
Speaker 1: you know, walking or exercising, if you go out for
50:59
Speaker 1: five minutes, it's a start and come back. So and
51:01
Speaker 1: I've actually done that because you know, yes, and now
51:06
Speaker 1: I'm up to ten miles. Yeah, so I started out small. Uh.
51:11
Speaker 1: My other mentor is Orlando Lynch at Atlanta Peach Movers,
51:15
Speaker 1: and he's always available to answer questions and help me
51:19
Speaker 1: out and text me back when I have a problem,
51:21
Speaker 1: whether it be with staff or the running up the business.
51:25
Speaker 1: And and it's kind of related to what we do
51:28
Speaker 1: because you know, he's moving people and and and that's
51:31
Speaker 1: what we're doing. We're moving people as well, and so
51:34
Speaker 1: that's really interesting. So so basically by I guess that's
51:38
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, and I know that's what I'm doing
51:40
Speaker 1: money making conversation because that's why I started this show
51:43
Speaker 1: to just have your story. Your story is compelling, its
51:46
Speaker 1: stories relatable, and people need to hear your story. And
51:49
Speaker 1: so as as we as we write down this information
51:52
Speaker 1: that you're giving us, what is your biggest takeaway? Give
51:56
Speaker 1: a gift of information to individuals who who are listening
51:59
Speaker 1: to you right now because you because you survived that
52:01
Speaker 1: little a little dip, Yes, I did that. The President
52:07
Speaker 1: Obama had to pull us out of So being licensed
52:11
Speaker 1: in three states was it wasn't a great thing as
52:14
Speaker 1: well because in Texas we didn't uh the market didn't
52:18
Speaker 1: take such a nose dit as it did here. Uh
52:21
Speaker 1: it did in Miami. In Florida. Yeah, Georgia and Florida
52:25
Speaker 1: took a hard hit because the real estate market. Uh there,
52:32
Speaker 1: I imagine that there's there's more people that moved into
52:36
Speaker 1: the Georgia area and and they were not that they
52:40
Speaker 1: owned more property and they had a lot less um
52:45
Speaker 1: equity in the in the in the in the properties
52:48
Speaker 1: and so when when they when they took a nose
52:50
Speaker 1: dive and they had to leave it, it just plummeted.
52:54
Speaker 1: So that you know, that's one of the main reasons.
52:57
Speaker 1: So tell us how to reach you. That's the part
53:00
Speaker 1: is why we came on the show. Let everybody know
53:03
Speaker 1: the build those that revenue the revenue well. Our slogan
53:07
Speaker 1: at Weddington Realist married the home you love. So we
53:10
Speaker 1: help you marry the home you love. And we're located
53:13
Speaker 1: in Rosswell, I mean, I'm sorry on Roswell Road at
53:17
Speaker 1: thirty twenty Rosswell Road and the office phone number is
53:21
Speaker 1: six seven eight eight one nine three nine o two.
53:23
Speaker 1: Again that number is six seven eight eight one nine
53:26
Speaker 1: three nine o two. And I give you my personal
53:29
Speaker 1: phone number and that stuff four oh four nine seven
53:32
Speaker 1: seven nine to two one. So now now they need
53:36
Speaker 1: to talk to me and they ca you could call me. Yeah,
53:39
Speaker 1: you have my personal phone number, give me a phone
53:42
Speaker 1: call and yeah, this is how it works. I needs
53:46
Speaker 1: to talk to my customer, that's right, because my number
53:51
Speaker 1: all the time. And uh, if people hear that number
53:56
Speaker 1: and they called me, pretty much, you're gonna know in
53:58
Speaker 1: a few seconds what you should be talking to me anyway, exactly,
54:00
Speaker 1: So I'll tell me you're not running me off my
54:03
Speaker 1: number exactly. That's how I feel too, running me off. Yeah,
54:08
Speaker 1: you know you master the ut of okay, why you
54:11
Speaker 1: call it? And I asked people that mean what you
54:13
Speaker 1: can't do to me? Silver You can't call me and say,
54:16
Speaker 1: wish what you're doing? I know what I'm doing. Why
54:19
Speaker 1: are you calling me? I know how to say that
54:22
Speaker 1: in the non rude manner, but you will know don't
54:25
Speaker 1: be calling me. And that really had my show got started.
54:28
Speaker 1: I just said, I have I don't have time for
54:31
Speaker 1: no non money making conversations, so much money making conversations.
54:36
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for coming on my show
54:38
Speaker 1: and know that you know this is a place whenever
54:41
Speaker 1: you want to promote. Do you do any Do you
54:43
Speaker 1: do any charity events for the foundation? Yes, I do.
54:47
Speaker 1: I actually with the American in conjunction with the American Hardest. Well,
54:52
Speaker 1: please let me know in the future if you need
54:54
Speaker 1: to come on the show, bring them on the show
54:56
Speaker 1: to promote it. Because the fact that that's what money
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Speaker 1: making conversation there's developed the relationship and allow you to
55:01
Speaker 1: know that you have a place to calm, to promote
55:03
Speaker 1: your bread, to promote your causes, and tell people your
55:06
Speaker 1: side of the story is relatable. It's fun and I
55:09
Speaker 1: wish you so much success and thank you, thank you,
55:11
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