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Chris Paul, Antoinette Clarke & Tricia Clarke-Stone, Romany Malco & Nakia Price · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to money Making Conversations. It's the show that she
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Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and
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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me
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Speaker 1: advice on many occasions in incasion didn't notice, I'm not broke.
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Speaker 1: You know, he'll be interviewing celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and industry
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Speaker 1: from my man, Rashan McDonald money making conversations. Here we come. Ah, Yes,
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Speaker 1: money making conversation. The brand that grows, the brand that tails.
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Speaker 1: All this is money make. You know, it's a difference
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Speaker 1: in my voice. There's a difference in my voice. There's
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Speaker 1: a proud, a proud flavor, a robust version of my
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Speaker 1: voice because I have the power twins on my show today.
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Speaker 1: That means you have to give extra You just can't
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Speaker 1: talk normal. You have to talk about because they're here
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Speaker 1: to talk about things that I talk about on a
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Speaker 1: daily basis on this show that I promote on a
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Speaker 1: daily basis. Success, believing in yourself, having relationships, look at
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Speaker 1: yourself in that mirror and say you can do it.
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Speaker 1: Not just say it, but believe in it. Walk through
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Speaker 1: the people who say you can't do it. Surround yourself
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Speaker 1: with relationships, respect your family. That's what they do. The
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Speaker 1: Power Twins. Now, one was born five minutes apart from
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Speaker 1: the other, but they are still twins because that's what
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Speaker 1: twins do. That's what they Dell One will always tell
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Speaker 1: the other I am the oldest because that's what twins do.
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Speaker 1: As I said earlier, my next guests are Twins. Hustlers, Media, mazings, Balls, Ladies,
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Speaker 1: and as All Magazine called them, Power Twins. One is
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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur, innovative marketer, and revenue producing executive who has
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Speaker 1: spent the last two decades at the intersection of marketing, branding, tech, media,
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Speaker 1: and entertainment. Her sister is a two time Emmy Award
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Speaker 1: winning television producer as am I a two time Emmy
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Speaker 1: Award winning television US. But what I am not is
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Speaker 1: the VP of Branded Entertainment and Media Innovation at CBS
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Speaker 1: Television Network. That is her. They're on the show to
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Speaker 1: day to talk about their new book, which I've read
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Speaker 1: so fast. The very first time I went back and
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Speaker 1: read it twice. It's called Double Down Media, Maven's Bostil
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Speaker 1: Ladies Power Twins. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Trisha
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Speaker 1: and Antoinette Clark with in Need. Welcome Ladies, hid We
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Speaker 1: love your energy already. Come on. You gotta make it happen.
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Speaker 1: You got to make it happen. The beauty of this
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Speaker 1: book is that, first of all, I have a twenty
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Speaker 1: two year daughter. She's in college. That I can't say
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Speaker 1: that because you know what, she's in college. My wife
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Speaker 1: will kill me. What did you say that? Now? Neither
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Speaker 1: gonna find what your daughter is going to go and
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Speaker 1: they bother her. But but this book I gotta lettle
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Speaker 1: read because it's it felt so um so because you
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Speaker 1: because I'm hearing about two success stories in one book
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Speaker 1: and how differently they were achieved and they will achieve
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Speaker 1: because of the I like to say that the ladies
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Speaker 1: in your life were mentors, and not only from the
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Speaker 1: standpoint if they were relatives, but they were mentoring you
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Speaker 1: and sometimes they didn't always say to you what you
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Speaker 1: wanted to hear. Correct, Yeah, absolutely, um And to your point,
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Speaker 1: you know, for your saying that you want your daughter
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Speaker 1: to read this book, that's why we wrote this book.
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Speaker 1: It was to democratize success for people that look like us.
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Speaker 1: And for so long we've been looked at as anomalies
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Speaker 1: as we continue to kind of rise up in our career,
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Speaker 1: and we were like, wait a minute, we should be
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Speaker 1: the norm. People of color should be the norm. It
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be well, how did they do it? It should
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Speaker 1: be like, how can we all do it? And we
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Speaker 1: think double down. At least that's the groundwork for us
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Speaker 1: to be able to scale kind of the mentorship that
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Speaker 1: we have been giving to two um young girls, young
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Speaker 1: men for the past few years. And and yes we
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Speaker 1: didn't always hear amazing things from from our family. We
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Speaker 1: called them our tribe, kind of the matriarchy, but they
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Speaker 1: definitely instilled a level of passion and determination to succeed.
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Speaker 1: We think a lot of that came from their immigrant mentality.
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Speaker 1: They came here, you know, from they came to the
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Speaker 1: States from Jamaica, and they wanted to achieve the American dream.
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Speaker 1: And their version of the American dream was exactly what
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Speaker 1: the status quo tells us, and that you have to
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Speaker 1: be a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer to kind
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Speaker 1: of make it. So that's the that's the vision and
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Speaker 1: the directive they gave to us. And we said, hold
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Speaker 1: on a minute, we don't want to be those things,
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Speaker 1: but we think we can still achieve a love a
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Speaker 1: love love success but doing it our way. And right
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Speaker 1: after college, we tricked them. We told them that we
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Speaker 1: would go to grad school after working for two years.
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Speaker 1: All they have to do is give us two years
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Speaker 1: to work, get to get some experience, then we would
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Speaker 1: go to grad school. So Anthon and I I took
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Speaker 1: it upon ourselves that within those two years, we have
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Speaker 1: to figure out a game plan of what success could
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Speaker 1: look like and what our north star is and what
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Speaker 1: the plan should be to help get us to, you know,
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Speaker 1: the levels that we wanted to achieve. And we were
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Speaker 1: able to at least lay the road map out within
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Speaker 1: those two years, so that Makeriarchy kind of gave us
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Speaker 1: some room to breathe and um, do it our way. Wonderful. Now,
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Speaker 1: the book we're talking about is called Double Down, and
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Speaker 1: it's reading. The book is divided into two parts. Part one,
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Speaker 1: you're focusing on how to double down on yourself, which
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Speaker 1: is very important. I like this because they're talking about
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Speaker 1: getting yourself right before we get to part two, You
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Speaker 1: really have to look in yourself because a lot of
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Speaker 1: people always dream I want to do this, uh, and
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Speaker 1: then they make up situations which stopped them from wanting
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Speaker 1: to do this that they keep talking about every time.
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Speaker 1: And let's talk about focusing on the loan game, always
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Speaker 1: keeping your eyes on the horizon or the prize while
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Speaker 1: moving forward with purpose and a and of action. That's
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Speaker 1: what I talked about all of all the time on
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Speaker 1: this show. What is your plan? You got a dream,
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Speaker 1: you set a goal, what is the plan? And then
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Speaker 1: part two helps you look outside of yourself that is
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Speaker 1: where you your crew looks like. It really interesting because
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Speaker 1: because uh, I talked about this when I was managing
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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, and then when I stopped managing, I was
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Speaker 1: just by myself, and so I was just trying to
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Speaker 1: do a lot of things by myself. And then I
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Speaker 1: had to take I have to take a step back,
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Speaker 1: and I realized I had a crew. When I was
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Speaker 1: managing Steve Harvey. I had people around me that I
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Speaker 1: could can you help me with this? And they wanted
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Speaker 1: to help me with And I like what you talked about.
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Speaker 1: You have to have ride or die people in your
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Speaker 1: crew that's what I forgot and that's what you're talking
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Speaker 1: about in the book. Correct, Oh yeah, like, and we
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Speaker 1: break it down you have to it has to come
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Speaker 1: from within and you have to build your tribe from
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Speaker 1: the inside out. What I love about your book is
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Speaker 1: that you preach confidence. You preach the fact that don't
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Speaker 1: don't don't assume that you shouldn't be there, that you
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Speaker 1: shouldn't have the you have the right to say that
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Speaker 1: this is mine, go forward. And so I say that
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Speaker 1: because when I think back over my life, I think
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Speaker 1: about all the success I had, especially when I kids
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Speaker 1: went into college. Is in college allowed me to grow
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Speaker 1: as a human being. That's why I always tell everybody
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Speaker 1: go to college. Just go to college and allow college
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Speaker 1: to to allow you to grow. Because when you're in
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Speaker 1: high school, high school just dictates to you go to class,
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Speaker 1: go to class, you go. You know if you if
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Speaker 1: you do good or bad, guess what you can get
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Speaker 1: through high school college. You do bad, I think got
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Speaker 1: something for you, go home. Okay. So that means that
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Speaker 1: you have to develop a competitiveness while you in college.
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Speaker 1: And that's what that's why college is such a beautiful thing.
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Speaker 1: When I read about in your book, because that's when
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Speaker 1: the competitive wheels of life really started for you too,
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Speaker 1: and that's what plays out in this book. Correct. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I think it started in college. That's I think
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Speaker 1: what we were able to expand it even more opportunities, right,
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Speaker 1: But I think it started when we were in high
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Speaker 1: school when we decided to sell guest slectshirts, Like there
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Speaker 1: was a store in Manhattan that had them price, so
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Speaker 1: we pulled all of our money together and bought about
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Speaker 1: thirty something sleat shirts. We started rocking them any chance
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Speaker 1: we could at school and then um kids would be
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Speaker 1: our clocksments were like where'd you get those? And then
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Speaker 1: we would have them at our backpacks and sell it
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Speaker 1: to them. So I think it's always been a part
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Speaker 1: of our d n A. And then we just flex
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Speaker 1: those muscles in different ways based on the white space
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Speaker 1: that we're able to find. Right. And that's important to
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Speaker 1: say that. And I stand corrected, because college allowed you
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Speaker 1: to expand on your entrepreneurship that you created high school,
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Speaker 1: because in high school I was setting blow pops. In
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Speaker 1: high school, I was I was selling blowpops. Go downstore,
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Speaker 1: get blow pops, and I go to school, Hey, blow
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Speaker 1: pops ain't just walking around the hallway region had them, okay,
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Speaker 1: And then I was a photographer in school, so I
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Speaker 1: would take I would take a couple of photos, a
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Speaker 1: couple of photos, five hours take photos. You know, I
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Speaker 1: had equipment access, had my little photo room. By going
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Speaker 1: in black and white, I do that. So I started
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Speaker 1: that in high school. And so when they got to college,
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Speaker 1: you know, it was like a bigger arena for me
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Speaker 1: to just expand on. I can see I can get
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Speaker 1: five dollars from people, I can get ten dollars from people.
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Speaker 1: I started being able to convince people to go a
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Speaker 1: group of people to go from this place to this
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Speaker 1: place that right there. See, I wish I had a
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Speaker 1: double down with me. She she had. She she had
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Speaker 1: a double down with her a twin. See if I
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Speaker 1: had Rushan McDonald had a twin, Oh boy, because she
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Speaker 1: can because whenever it's a rap, it's because see whenever
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Speaker 1: she questioned herself, the other twins or the girl, let's
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Speaker 1: go forward, really, yes, let's go, let's throw this party,
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Speaker 1: let's go to the school. You can do this. So
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Speaker 1: whenever a little doubt drops in, and that's something to
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Speaker 1: just tell you something is that everybody needs to get
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Speaker 1: them a twin, Okay, a person who's a ride or
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Speaker 1: that a person who you can throw back information to
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Speaker 1: him and they give it back to you as real
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Speaker 1: as possible. That's what I took away from this book
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Speaker 1: is that you to be successful, you got to have
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Speaker 1: a partner in some degree, whether there's a love interest,
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Speaker 1: whether it's a best friend, somebody that you can roll with.
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Speaker 1: They were born together, five minutes depart and they become
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Speaker 1: business partner's best friend. That was my takeaway friend book.
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Speaker 1: That I missed that in this book when I was reading,
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Speaker 1: because that's what I took away. I need to give
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Speaker 1: me a Roshan McDonald twin. That's yeah, and that's a
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Speaker 1: big part of it. It's showing how you can use
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Speaker 1: take lessons of what we've been able to develop because
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Speaker 1: we're twins, and how you can apply that in your
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Speaker 1: friendships with colleagues and with the rest of your tribes.
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Speaker 1: The tribes cool. So the positions that you guys achieved, now,
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Speaker 1: what's what's the future. You write a book, you know
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Speaker 1: you're receiving compliments about your skill, about your skills. It's
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Speaker 1: not about your looks, it's about your skills. I think
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Speaker 1: that's very important. I think it's very that's what you
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Speaker 1: two wanted to achieve. You when people recognize you for
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Speaker 1: talents and you want to share your talents to the
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Speaker 1: young ladies, to let them know that they can be great,
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Speaker 1: because so many times it is not men but thrown
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Speaker 1: to women how they look and how they can be
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Speaker 1: as successful based on their looks. And I see that
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Speaker 1: coming clear through the book. Through the pages of this
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Speaker 1: book as well, it's about what you can do and
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Speaker 1: don't let anybody's status quo is another one of those things.
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Speaker 1: Don't let people deny your success because they said you
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Speaker 1: got there based on your looks. That brings in these
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Speaker 1: pages as well. Correctly, Oh, it's about what you bring
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Speaker 1: to the table because and we're all about achievement versus activity. Right,
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Speaker 1: So people can spend their wheels and and try to
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Speaker 1: you know, have these small winds and get you know,
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Speaker 1: blocked down by failures. But we're always going to have
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Speaker 1: our eye on the long game because we know that
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Speaker 1: we want to make an impact and you want to
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Speaker 1: want to be libary not temporary. Okay, both say that's
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Speaker 1: the first time they talked to another, now can right
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Speaker 1: you see I was rolling. I was rolling with everybody
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Speaker 1: going who tuning this tuck and then they're gonna talk together.
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Speaker 1: The magic is it's such a beautiful thing. I would
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Speaker 1: make sure we get that out there. Plus I want
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Speaker 1: been I gotta go back into that voice. This has
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Speaker 1: been amazing. I've had the Clark's Sisters. I've had the
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Speaker 1: Pointer Sisters. I've had the Clark's Sisters the Gospels. Now
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Speaker 1: I've had the Twins, the Power Twins. They're the stars
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Speaker 1: of the book, the writers of the book double down,
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Speaker 1: better on yourself and succeed on your terms. They're just
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Speaker 1: a younger version of Rushan McDonald. Unfortunately there's only one
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Speaker 1: I would see all the amazing things guys are doing.
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Speaker 1: sneak upon you. When you make these things, then you
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Speaker 1: will be successful by standing ahead of the ignorance. And
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Speaker 1: another point, dream killers. They're away from dream killers, and
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Speaker 1: they sayers, and they can come in different forms. And
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Speaker 1: a dream killer and they say it can be a parent,
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Speaker 1: in the mirror, and you might be the dream killer.
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Speaker 1: I try to stop. That's my goal to stop from
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Speaker 1: you being the worst enemy for yourself. That's what money
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Speaker 1: making conversations all about. My next guest, I'm just tell
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Speaker 1: you all this his resume five times, and I'm tired
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Speaker 1: because this brother does a lot. My next guest as
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Speaker 1: an NBA superstar, entrepreneur, philanthropists, inspirational motivator, notable brand ambassador
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Speaker 1: for State Farm. In two thousand five, Chris and his
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Speaker 1: family established the CP three Foundation of philanthropic partnership with
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Speaker 1: the Winston Salem Foundation in honor of his late grandfather,
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Speaker 1: the foundation's effort are truly a family affair, and with
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Speaker 1: his tenth anniversary, the foundation officially changed its name to
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Speaker 1: the Chris Paul Family Foundation to include the involvement of
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Speaker 1: Chris's wife, parents, brother, sister in law, and extended family members.
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Speaker 1: He is a man that I am a fan of
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Speaker 1: because what he stands in life, because he stands up
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Speaker 1: for himself and the people around him and his community.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversations, Chris Paul. What's going on, Chris,
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Speaker 1: and tell you some I originally from Houston, Texas, Okay,
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Speaker 1: and so yes, sir, I'm based in Atlanta, but for Houston,
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Speaker 1: Texas and the Theena impressed me. I was always impressed
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Speaker 1: with you before we got traded in Houston. That's gonna
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Speaker 1: be real about this, Okay. If you if your guy
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Speaker 1: who knows sports and understand sports and know your history
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Speaker 1: as a as a man, as an individual, as a leader,
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Speaker 1: you impressed. But as soon as you got to Houston,
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Speaker 1: you got involved in the community, explained, explain that drive
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Speaker 1: as soon as so so as soon as it gets there,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna TV. He's passing that food. What drives that
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Speaker 1: direction in your life? So strongly. I think for me,
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Speaker 1: it's always in my support system and my family. You know,
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Speaker 1: growing up in North Carolina, you know, everything was always
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Speaker 1: about like helping others and understanding that you don't get
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Speaker 1: anywhere on your own. And the day I got traded,
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Speaker 1: you know, to to Houston, I became of h Houstonia
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Speaker 1: with the hurt, with the hurricane happening. Um that that
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Speaker 1: was tough, you know to see you know now part
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Speaker 1: of my extended family and during what they were having
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Speaker 1: to go through, I wanted to do as much as
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Speaker 1: I could, do my part and help as much as possible.
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Speaker 1: And is not even the fact that I, you know,
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Speaker 1: got traded to Houston, just just because you know, we
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Speaker 1: all are people. You know, it's a big family, so
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Speaker 1: you know, and that's really important because you know, it's
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Speaker 1: like because I know that, like you said, you're in
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Speaker 1: us to that, but you're still helping people in other areas.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're on the call today and talk about
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Speaker 1: how you just feel a need to shape a better
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Speaker 1: life for people you don't know, and that's an important
18:24
Speaker 1: value system for you. Correct. Yeah, I think for me, uh,
18:30
Speaker 1: I've always looked at basketball as you know, a tool,
18:35
Speaker 1: like I love the game more than anybody. But I
18:37
Speaker 1: always say, you know, basketball is what I do, It's
18:40
Speaker 1: not who I am. You know, if I remember, uh
18:43
Speaker 1: if i'm if I remember, you know, when I leave
18:46
Speaker 1: this earth as just this amazing basketball player, then I
18:49
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, my life was a failure. You know,
18:52
Speaker 1: there's so many people who have helped me get to
18:54
Speaker 1: where I am today that you know, it's it's paying
18:58
Speaker 1: it forward and just trying to teach and your case,
19:00
Speaker 1: especially the youth. Uh not only my own kids especially them,
19:04
Speaker 1: but everyone, just trying to teach them. Because I'm study
19:07
Speaker 1: four and I'm still learning. I tell people that that's,
19:10
Speaker 1: you know, someone in the same page. I tell people
19:12
Speaker 1: I wake up ignorant every morning. That way, I'm willing
19:15
Speaker 1: to accept information that's being delivered to me because you
19:17
Speaker 1: wake up think you know it all. Then guess what
19:19
Speaker 1: You're gonna miss some valuable information to a valuable advice.
19:23
Speaker 1: And that's also a humble side of you that that
19:26
Speaker 1: I feel you know that that that that rings out
19:29
Speaker 1: for you because naturally as an athlete, and you're such
19:31
Speaker 1: a gifted athlete, that's a necessary feeling that you know
19:34
Speaker 1: you are in some ways immortal. You know, you're invincible
19:38
Speaker 1: because that craft, you're so good at it. But in
19:40
Speaker 1: the business world, when you go into the business world
19:43
Speaker 1: and the charitable world, it's filled with so many flaws
19:46
Speaker 1: because you know, you get on the court, you see
19:47
Speaker 1: the length of basketball store, you know the rams ten feet,
19:50
Speaker 1: you know where the free throw line is gonna be
19:51
Speaker 1: this far. But when you get in the business world,
19:54
Speaker 1: those dynamics disappear. That's when it also gets really interesting
19:58
Speaker 1: and challenging. Correct, Yeah, it gets very interesting because what
20:02
Speaker 1: happens also is a lot of times people see you
20:05
Speaker 1: on television or they see you on that court and
20:07
Speaker 1: they think that's all you know. You know, they think
20:10
Speaker 1: all you know is how to put the ball in
20:11
Speaker 1: the basket right, and um, that's that's not the case.
20:16
Speaker 1: Not only myself, it's a lot of intelligent athletes out there,
20:20
Speaker 1: and I think that's why, you know, we have to
20:22
Speaker 1: continue to learn. And it's funny, you know, sometimes when
20:26
Speaker 1: you do get in the business world and people shake
20:28
Speaker 1: your hand, they make a comment and they're like, oh,
20:30
Speaker 1: you know about this, Like, yeah, we we only played
20:33
Speaker 1: the games from seven. That's so true. It's really interesting
20:38
Speaker 1: because I and I totally agree with you that because
20:42
Speaker 1: when I was managing Steve Harvey and whenever we was
20:44
Speaker 1: doing deals, you know, it was so much energy put
20:47
Speaker 1: in his direction because he was the start Steve Harber,
20:49
Speaker 1: I was. I was just doing a deal. And and
20:51
Speaker 1: and I will tell you, because of mine who I
20:54
Speaker 1: was in African American, a lot of a lot of
20:56
Speaker 1: shade was throwing my way like I didn't know what
20:58
Speaker 1: I was doing, Like I was his running buddy, like
21:00
Speaker 1: I was his boy. And I would always tell him,
21:03
Speaker 1: You're gonna talk to me later. I would just tell him,
21:05
Speaker 1: you're gonna talk to me later. And because because people
21:08
Speaker 1: will disrespect you by, you know, stereotyping you. And that's
21:12
Speaker 1: what you're saying. As an athlete, I was being stereotyped
21:15
Speaker 1: because guess what. And Lebron runs through that same problem
21:17
Speaker 1: with his boys. Could they call him crew? They disrespect
21:20
Speaker 1: the fact that you can be of a certain color,
21:23
Speaker 1: a certain a certain or certain gender and feel that
21:26
Speaker 1: you can't compete mentally in this corporate game, this game
21:29
Speaker 1: of closing deals. And that's what you're playing in every day.
21:33
Speaker 1: Because I look at all these brands and partnerships that
21:35
Speaker 1: you're tied to. It's amazing that you're so well rounded, Chris,
21:40
Speaker 1: try to at least and you know, over the years,
21:43
Speaker 1: I've had some unbelievable mentors who I paid attention to
21:46
Speaker 1: and like and like you just said, there, Um, it's
21:50
Speaker 1: never never having too much information. Yes, you know, I
21:55
Speaker 1: always want to learn, um, And that's what it is.
22:00
Speaker 1: I mean I talk about a lot of times as
22:02
Speaker 1: a professional athlete. Uh, I got drafted into the NBA
22:05
Speaker 1: when I was nineteen, about twenty years old. And you're young.
22:10
Speaker 1: You don't know about financial literacy. You don't know about
22:13
Speaker 1: a lot and so if you if you don't try
22:17
Speaker 1: to seek some of that knowledge, you know, your career
22:19
Speaker 1: can go by. And now you're just sitting there like
22:21
Speaker 1: what do I do? Now? See we're just talking about you,
22:24
Speaker 1: and they're just talking about Rashan McCown. But to accomplish
22:27
Speaker 1: the task that you're you have a team. Let's talk
22:29
Speaker 1: about the team that surrounds Chris paul Man. Listen, my
22:33
Speaker 1: my team is unbelievable and match let's give us some blog.
22:37
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
22:39
Speaker 1: if you if you show me, if you show me somebody,
22:44
Speaker 1: Uh that doesn't have an amazing team around him, and
22:47
Speaker 1: they're lying. And I'll tell you first and foremost that
22:50
Speaker 1: it's not me, like I'm glad that I can be
22:53
Speaker 1: the voice and whatnot, but my team, which consists of
22:56
Speaker 1: a number of number of people. But I mean, I
22:59
Speaker 1: had to I never started my wife everything. I mean
23:03
Speaker 1: when my wife since I was eighteen years old, and
23:07
Speaker 1: she she is absolutely the point guard of the family.
23:11
Speaker 1: You know, I just play it for my team. Um.
23:14
Speaker 1: But then I got my my parents. I'm so blessed.
23:17
Speaker 1: I'm fortunate to have a mom and dad. Uh my
23:20
Speaker 1: older brother who is my business manager. Also have a
23:23
Speaker 1: woman named Carmen Wilson who is unbelievable, unbelievable, and it
23:29
Speaker 1: goes on and on. We're really a family when it
23:32
Speaker 1: when it comes to our operations, and that's really important
23:35
Speaker 1: because family. I look back in my life. I tell
23:37
Speaker 1: people when I comment club and Nanny too, it was
23:40
Speaker 1: my family who worked the door. It's my family who
23:42
Speaker 1: set people down. I wouldn't be here without my family.
23:45
Speaker 1: So I understand the value of your conversation because it's
23:48
Speaker 1: that support system that can be family, can be friends,
23:50
Speaker 1: but you gotta have that support system. And I want
23:52
Speaker 1: to apologize right with Chris, I jumped the club sixty one. Really,
23:56
Speaker 1: I want to get back over to where we really
23:58
Speaker 1: originally brought you on the phone and talk about the Business, Entertainment,
24:02
Speaker 1: Media and Sports event this happening September at the Alumni
24:06
Speaker 1: Foundation Center. Please tell us in more detail exactly, Uh,
24:10
Speaker 1: it is what the agenda is gonna be. I know
24:12
Speaker 1: we have twargion fifty North count Ant students. Talk a
24:15
Speaker 1: little bit more about that. So, Uh, the students, they're
24:19
Speaker 1: gonna participate in a class, right, and they'll discuss case studies.
24:24
Speaker 1: So that's what we did when I went to the
24:26
Speaker 1: class at Harvard. So we'll have case studies. And it's
24:29
Speaker 1: cool because one of the case studies is on the
24:33
Speaker 1: ways like my brother, one of my really close friends,
24:38
Speaker 1: and we'll get a chance to go over some of
24:41
Speaker 1: his business things that he's had over the years and
24:45
Speaker 1: decisions that he had to make, the same thing we'll
24:47
Speaker 1: do for the Walt Disney Studios, which is a huge company,
24:51
Speaker 1: major company. Um, And we'll get to have discussions and
24:57
Speaker 1: I think the nicest, the best thing about the classes
24:59
Speaker 1: that provide brainstorm and then you also get a chance
25:03
Speaker 1: to get some real information that a lot of times
25:06
Speaker 1: people don't know. That's why I'm so excited to be
25:09
Speaker 1: a part of it. Also because you know, I've been blessed,
25:13
Speaker 1: like I said, to be in some of these rooms
25:15
Speaker 1: and some of these decisions on how they've been made.
25:17
Speaker 1: So to talk to the students and let them ask
25:20
Speaker 1: questions and you know, basically get behind the curtain on
25:24
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of major deals. You know
25:26
Speaker 1: it really when you talk about the Walt Disney brand,
25:30
Speaker 1: and this is what he's really saying. When you Okay,
25:32
Speaker 1: let's look look at the Walt didn't brand. Let's break
25:34
Speaker 1: that down ESPN, Hulu, Fox, Okay, Disney plus E ISBN
25:42
Speaker 1: plus all of the parks. So when you just grab
25:46
Speaker 1: Disney Alan, you got the whole gaming right now worldwide.
25:50
Speaker 1: They got the six highest grossing movies in the world.
25:53
Speaker 1: It's Walt Disney owned ABC don't want to forget a
25:58
Speaker 1: free form. So when you're talking about is he alone?
26:00
Speaker 1: It just it will just shock these young people to
26:03
Speaker 1: know that how far it's brand did you associated with?
26:08
Speaker 1: You might say, h picks are Marvel. Oh he's gonna
26:13
Speaker 1: he's gonna check me now, he's gonna he's gonna check
26:16
Speaker 1: me like, I'm just messing with you, Chris, just messing
26:21
Speaker 1: with you because you're right, it's so much til Black
26:26
Speaker 1: Panther absolutely absolutely, yeah, yeah, So all of these different
26:30
Speaker 1: types of things. First of all, I want to let
26:31
Speaker 1: you know thank you for coming on my show. I
26:33
Speaker 1: want to let you know, please um anything you promote.
26:37
Speaker 1: I'm a fan based in Houston. Still got a home
26:40
Speaker 1: in Houston. I live in Atlanta, I've been in New York.
26:43
Speaker 1: I'm doing a lot of things. I am a fan.
26:45
Speaker 1: I went to the University of Houston. I also didn't
26:47
Speaker 1: not go to an HBCU school, but I'm you know,
26:50
Speaker 1: I would endown at my university Houston. But I am
26:53
Speaker 1: going to be a major player as far as a
26:55
Speaker 1: voce for HBCU schools. So no, whenever you need to
26:59
Speaker 1: come our way, Chef n Smith Way, ras Sean mcdonaway,
27:02
Speaker 1: Ricky Smiley Way, we will be there for you, brother,
27:05
Speaker 1: because HBCUs need that voice. What did you say that here?
27:12
Speaker 1: Thank you, my brother, and you've been thank you for
27:13
Speaker 1: getting on this call. And I appreciate you, man, and
27:15
Speaker 1: keep your family high man, because guess what they're the
27:18
Speaker 1: reason you're strong. Okay, we'll be right back with more
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Speaker 1: is an actor, writer, director, and producer. He's a series
28:04
Speaker 1: regular on ABC's hit drama A Million Little Things, starring
28:08
Speaker 1: is the character Rome Howard. He is back on the
28:11
Speaker 1: show to talk about the first season and the upcoming
28:14
Speaker 1: second season, and I want to share some very important
28:17
Speaker 1: advice that he gave me. He's the first born American
28:19
Speaker 1: with Trinidadian descent. He has lived from Baytown, Texas to
28:23
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. Please welcome back the Money Making Conversations Rominy Malcolm. Hey,
28:30
Speaker 1: thank you, Dan. That's a nice interes. Let's talk you
28:32
Speaker 1: the best central. I have a guy, right there. Thank
28:34
Speaker 1: you very much, Sean, appreciate that good. I'm happy to
28:37
Speaker 1: be here. And and I want to know if I could,
28:39
Speaker 1: if I could piggy back on what you were saying about,
28:42
Speaker 1: you know, if you have a plan that you can
28:43
Speaker 1: make it. Am I allowed to do that? Or do me? Now?
28:45
Speaker 1: It just show us about to do your thing. I
28:49
Speaker 1: just want to say something, you know. Uh, you know. Look,
28:52
Speaker 1: one of the other things that really inhibits people, I believe,
28:55
Speaker 1: from actually realizing their dreams is simply they have this
28:58
Speaker 1: preconceived notion of what the process should be like. So
29:02
Speaker 1: what that means is they think from what they take
29:05
Speaker 1: things to face value, that they take the success they
29:07
Speaker 1: see your face value, and then so they go into
29:09
Speaker 1: it and they I don't care if you're just selling jewelry,
29:11
Speaker 1: making YouTube videos, or running a fortune five hundred company.
29:15
Speaker 1: The bottom line is that people are doing a lot
29:18
Speaker 1: of additional work beyond what you're seeing and you know,
29:21
Speaker 1: at face value. So in other words, there's so much
29:24
Speaker 1: extra work that goes on behind the scenes. And I
29:27
Speaker 1: don't don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about paying dudes.
29:29
Speaker 1: Yes there's paying dudes, but there's also simple strategies and
29:33
Speaker 1: techniques that we need mentors and we need non parvental
29:37
Speaker 1: care in adults to inform usel because we hadn't walked
29:41
Speaker 1: that path. And it's those little bits of insight that
29:43
Speaker 1: saved us so much time. I wish I had known
29:45
Speaker 1: that when I was younger. I caught to be a
29:47
Speaker 1: lot further ahead of my own life. That's all. But
29:50
Speaker 1: isn't that part of the growing process process to you know?
29:52
Speaker 1: Because I always go back and I always tell people
29:54
Speaker 1: what you learn in your twenties, it's really what the
29:56
Speaker 1: structure of what you're going to be successful in your
29:58
Speaker 1: forties and your fifties, because that's when you were fearless.
30:01
Speaker 1: That's when you had the dreams, and if anybody told
30:03
Speaker 1: you a question, you you tended to ignore that. But
30:06
Speaker 1: as you got older, you got into relationships and you
30:09
Speaker 1: start worried about the position you are in life. You know,
30:12
Speaker 1: that fear of change, that fear of I bet, I bet,
30:16
Speaker 1: I've been a hold back on this. So the whole
30:18
Speaker 1: back what you say, right, No, but no, But there's
30:22
Speaker 1: some value to that though, because you know something real talk.
30:25
Speaker 1: I have to say that there was definitely a fearlessness uh,
30:29
Speaker 1: you know, in my youth. But also what there was
30:33
Speaker 1: was this uh lack of awareness of self. Because of
30:37
Speaker 1: that lack of awareness of self, I had these unaddressed issues.
30:40
Speaker 1: So by not knowing myself and not knowing what I
30:42
Speaker 1: was capable of, I was kind of afraid that would
30:44
Speaker 1: composed myself if any sense, very much. A lot of
30:48
Speaker 1: people tell me, Yeah, people say, yo, well, I'm you're
30:50
Speaker 1: so underrated. I'm not underrated, really, I'm just scared. So
30:54
Speaker 1: I'm the dude to avoid a lot of the avoided
30:56
Speaker 1: a lot of great opportunities simply because I was afraid
30:59
Speaker 1: that I would be suppose it is not being worthy
31:01
Speaker 1: or good enough. So I actually took I I actually
31:04
Speaker 1: took refuge, and I found uh joy in being able
31:08
Speaker 1: to be the side dude, being able to be the
31:10
Speaker 1: supporting actor, you know. And you know that was really
31:14
Speaker 1: a biproduct of just like deeper insecurity that hadn't been
31:17
Speaker 1: addressed real talk. So I think that you know, we
31:19
Speaker 1: have a fair defensive with kids, but there's a subconscious
31:22
Speaker 1: thing as well where maybe we've been convinced by you know,
31:25
Speaker 1: by our environment that we're not worthy. Not saying that
31:28
Speaker 1: it's true we've just been convinced of it, and so
31:31
Speaker 1: I think sometimes there's a lot of value in northern
31:33
Speaker 1: in northern American countries, we tend to overlook, uh, the
31:37
Speaker 1: need to resolve those issues as we pursue success. You know,
31:40
Speaker 1: it's not just about willpowers. There is a resolve. Most
31:43
Speaker 1: of the wealthy people that helped me make my movies,
31:45
Speaker 1: that helped me make my money, they have all had
31:48
Speaker 1: to put themselves in that vulnerable position of getting to
31:50
Speaker 1: know themselves better. Because on the on the movie Prison Logic,
31:53
Speaker 1: there was you did when you came on the show
31:55
Speaker 1: last time? That was a crowdfunded movie. Correct, it was
31:59
Speaker 1: a cloud on the movie. Now here was my strategy
32:01
Speaker 1: on that. This is the prime example of what I'm
32:03
Speaker 1: saying about getting to know the ins and outs of something.
32:06
Speaker 1: I UH did so much research on cliud funding had
32:09
Speaker 1: no idea that it wasn't just about you know, starting
32:13
Speaker 1: up and asking your fans of money. There was so
32:15
Speaker 1: much strategy and to be quite frank, like that cloud
32:18
Speaker 1: funding game as shady as hell, and you you would
32:20
Speaker 1: not believe it. All the all the skulls that we
32:22
Speaker 1: could go on behind the scenes and being able to
32:25
Speaker 1: learn and understand that. But what I did was I
32:27
Speaker 1: used the cloud funding campaign to attract investors. So here's
32:30
Speaker 1: the prime example of a strategy you might not know.
32:32
Speaker 1: You never asked for a hundred percent of what you
32:34
Speaker 1: want when you're running a cloud funding campaign. Always asked
32:37
Speaker 1: about fifty because statistically, a successful cloud funding campaign will
32:41
Speaker 1: be funded on average between two hundred to a thousand
32:44
Speaker 1: percent of asking. So that means that if you're asking
32:48
Speaker 1: for a hundred thousand and your campaign is successful, your
32:50
Speaker 1: gaarmantee to make somewhere between two hundred thousand and a million,
32:57
Speaker 1: you get so so the my math might be up
33:01
Speaker 1: there you saw. I got a little secure when I
33:02
Speaker 1: saw that, calculating the point you're all comedians. You're all comedians, right,
33:09
Speaker 1: um so so anyway, so what I did was I
33:12
Speaker 1: made the crowd fund the campaign successful by asking for
33:14
Speaker 1: half of what I wanted, and then went to investors
33:17
Speaker 1: show infestis, look, this campaign is hot and people like
33:19
Speaker 1: to see your train this role. And like my manager
33:21
Speaker 1: told me, sometimes you gotta start your party and then
33:24
Speaker 1: sending out the invitations. And that's kind of what I did.
33:26
Speaker 1: I used the campaign to attract confestors by making the
33:29
Speaker 1: campaign look like you had a huge following and a
33:32
Speaker 1: lot of people that were back in it that inspired
33:34
Speaker 1: and motivated the investors, and so we ended up doing that.
33:38
Speaker 1: Um I made the movie. I saw the winning stuff
33:39
Speaker 1: at all these different festivals, and I didn't even listen.
33:42
Speaker 1: I wasn't in sun Dance and all those festivals. I
33:44
Speaker 1: was actually in the festivals that were hosted in places
33:47
Speaker 1: where people had given me money. And I said, we're
33:50
Speaker 1: gonna submit to them festivals. We went to them festivals.
33:52
Speaker 1: We was winning Best Lead Audience Audience Awards. That edited
33:56
Speaker 1: the death music lesson. Right then James Littlepez for Will
34:00
Speaker 1: Packer's company, saw that I loved it, took it to
34:03
Speaker 1: Will Packer. They called me, like eleven o'clock at night,
34:05
Speaker 1: you wanted to talk about it. I got on the
34:06
Speaker 1: phone with In fact, that's my Instagram post this morning.
34:09
Speaker 1: I got on the phone with them, and the next
34:10
Speaker 1: thing you know, we were selling it to Smith Global Media,
34:12
Speaker 1: which is will Will Smith's brother, Hay Smith. First time
34:16
Speaker 1: I got on the phone with him, I thought they
34:17
Speaker 1: was plunking me. I really thought it was Will because
34:19
Speaker 1: they found so much Likelih. But anyway, so that movie
34:23
Speaker 1: comes out next year to February. We look for it. Okay,
34:28
Speaker 1: you know we have so much great things we've talked
34:30
Speaker 1: about so far. I'm gonna wrap up this particular break.
34:32
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the movie that's coming out in November
34:34
Speaker 1: called Holiday Rush that's coming on Netflix. Let's let's wrap
34:37
Speaker 1: this break up talking about that all Holiday Rush that's
34:40
Speaker 1: coming out of the Netflix in November. Correct, man, let
34:44
Speaker 1: me tell you something that I don't know. If you
34:45
Speaker 1: know who Leslie Small is, he's a man. Come on.
34:48
Speaker 1: He did like three Neighborhood Awards. He directed like three
34:51
Speaker 1: Neighborhood Awards for me. I know Leslie Small. Okay, dude,
34:55
Speaker 1: that that's first of all, ask my brother. This dude
34:57
Speaker 1: is incredible. One of the most inspiring him in he's
35:00
Speaker 1: ever met. This dude. He's directed Kevin Hard to stand ups,
35:04
Speaker 1: can organ stand up, became a big comedian. He's he's
35:07
Speaker 1: he's hit him in their prime. Right. So he's like, Yo,
35:10
Speaker 1: I want you to do this movie. I want you
35:12
Speaker 1: to play the lead. And again, like I said, the man,
35:14
Speaker 1: securities kicked there and I was like, you wanted me
35:15
Speaker 1: to play the lead. You want to meet like Romany
35:18
Speaker 1: Maunco to play lead Romany Malco living in Puerto Rico
35:21
Speaker 1: to Funti Texas at Baytown, Texas. Right, I'm like, you
35:27
Speaker 1: want to meet Baker and he was like, yes, So
35:30
Speaker 1: let me tell something. I felt insecure making the whole
35:32
Speaker 1: movie where he cast a Niqua Martin Green, he cast
35:35
Speaker 1: the uncle. These people showed up so on, so on,
35:39
Speaker 1: another level of prepared and funny, and they forced me
35:43
Speaker 1: to tap into something in myself that I didn't even
35:45
Speaker 1: know I had. And I kept going to him every
35:47
Speaker 1: other scene and being like, are you sure, Because I'm sure?
35:50
Speaker 1: Because you're not sure, he says, You're not supposed to
35:52
Speaker 1: feel comfortable here. You're supposed to be being stretching. That's
35:55
Speaker 1: what happened. So here what happened. I So we make
35:58
Speaker 1: the movie. I go away, I come back, so I
36:01
Speaker 1: have to do a b R. So I have to
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41:02
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41:05
Speaker 1: is a motivational show. It's an inspirational show and show
41:09
Speaker 1: that when the people listen to my show, they walk
41:11
Speaker 1: away with information that will help them be successful. I
41:15
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41:18
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41:21
Speaker 1: about being a planner, all about realizing that what you
41:25
Speaker 1: want to accomplish in life, you have to work hard
41:27
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41:30
Speaker 1: How do you work hard? What's the plan to work hard?
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Speaker 1: Is their day off when you're working hard? All this
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41:38
Speaker 1: Making Conversation. But my next interview really it's uh, it's
41:43
Speaker 1: about food. It's about reshaance. I think, um second favorite thing,
41:49
Speaker 1: not that you do in life is eat. The other
41:52
Speaker 1: parties just living. I love living, but eating. My friends
41:55
Speaker 1: no me, they know I love to eat. And this
41:59
Speaker 1: this this UH interview a feature I called Rushan Eats.
42:03
Speaker 1: It's on my website, Baker Spotlight. You go there different
42:07
Speaker 1: places I've been told about UH that are amazing restaurants.
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Speaker 1: I make them a part of Rushan Eats. So that's
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Speaker 1: just a setup of my introduction to my next guests.
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Speaker 1: My next guest first introduced Texans to their mouth watering
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Speaker 1: turkey legs as the Houston Rodeo. In let you know
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Speaker 1: about the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo. Roughly two million people
42:31
Speaker 1: attend the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo every year. Just let
42:34
Speaker 1: you know. It's not just a regular rodeo. So just
42:36
Speaker 1: to get just to be a Protestant, be a vendor
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Speaker 1: at the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo is a game change,
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Speaker 1: especially for minorities. In three short years, the Houston couple
42:46
Speaker 1: has taken their widely popular turkey legs to new heights,
42:49
Speaker 1: expanding their menu to include seven varieties of suculent, fall
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Speaker 1: off the home, fall off the bone turkey legs in
42:56
Speaker 1: a full compliment of homemade delicacies at their first Turkey
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Speaker 1: Leg location on al me the Road and the heart
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Speaker 1: of Houston and historic Third War Texas. Third War Texas,
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Speaker 1: Texas Southerners there. University of Houston where I went to
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Speaker 1: school was there. Jack Gates, one of the most powerful
43:13
Speaker 1: football program African American programs in the history of Texas football,
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Speaker 1: is located in Third War Texas. The restaurant has also
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Speaker 1: become a popular Houston spot, hot spot with late night
43:25
Speaker 1: hours and sold for live music every Tuesday. Please welcome
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Speaker 1: to money Making Conversation. One of the owners of Turkey
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Speaker 1: Leg Hug Turkey Leg, the originators of the world famous
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Speaker 1: stuff turkey Legs. Please welcome. Killa Price. I'll tell you what,
43:43
Speaker 1: um you know, just saying your name, MS. Price makes
43:46
Speaker 1: me home. You know that, you know that, you know
43:49
Speaker 1: I got the I got the website up, I got
43:52
Speaker 1: all this amazing food. You post the video. The rappers
43:55
Speaker 1: love you, your videos going viral. Before we even get
43:58
Speaker 1: into the question, just let me no, or you overwhelmed
44:02
Speaker 1: by all this, or it's just like you prayed about
44:04
Speaker 1: it and you knew this was gonna happen, you know,
44:06
Speaker 1: with hard work and faith and all that good stuff
44:08
Speaker 1: and people surrounded. Let's talk about how you feeling about this,
44:11
Speaker 1: because right now I'm feeling hongry. I think it's definitely
44:17
Speaker 1: something that we prayed about. Um. We never in a
44:20
Speaker 1: million years did we imagine that it would be to
44:23
Speaker 1: this extent. But every day of the journey, we take
44:26
Speaker 1: it one day at a time, and one day at
44:28
Speaker 1: the time means what because your business because you expanding.
44:32
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that later. Expanding the business. I'm
44:34
Speaker 1: sure people just dropping all these ideas about franchise and
44:37
Speaker 1: gr y'all could be the next such and such, and
44:41
Speaker 1: you have to take that in stride because the fact that,
44:43
Speaker 1: like I said, what were you when I was at
44:46
Speaker 1: the livestop? Where were you have before? Before I was
44:49
Speaker 1: at the livestop? But before that, my husband had a
44:55
Speaker 1: repo company. He was recoring our v trailers and I
44:59
Speaker 1: myself was that you your project manager for a litigation firms.
45:02
Speaker 1: So neither one of us had culinary background or culinary experience. Um,
45:07
Speaker 1: you know, was something that that happened he had. We
45:10
Speaker 1: had the idea we were disappointing to you know, with
45:13
Speaker 1: the rodeo, we were shuttling people into the rodeo. So
45:17
Speaker 1: food wasn't even our main focus at that point in time. Um,
45:22
Speaker 1: and our main focus was shuttling people into the rodeo.
45:25
Speaker 1: We just had a barbecue pit on the field in
45:27
Speaker 1: the field where we were shuttling the people, and we
45:31
Speaker 1: had turkey legs, food and sausage on a stick. And
45:35
Speaker 1: you know, we came up with the idea that we
45:37
Speaker 1: were just going to feed people while they were waiting
45:38
Speaker 1: to go inside at the rodeo. And my husband, he,
45:42
Speaker 1: you know, his thing was just repost for us social media,
45:45
Speaker 1: social media. Everything is social social media reposed for us.
45:48
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens, and it just snowball from there.
45:52
Speaker 1: So the fact that he had the foresight and understand
45:55
Speaker 1: the value of social media, and you got the these
45:58
Speaker 1: giant pizzas and you know, I'm gonnae to yourself, you
46:00
Speaker 1: know because will you say your clienteles African American? Yes, okay, cool?
46:07
Speaker 1: I want just before I make to stake because black
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Speaker 1: people like value for their money. Okay, so correct, you
46:12
Speaker 1: see you see this giant I'm telling you so that
46:14
Speaker 1: giant turkey leg and then like any any restaurant you
46:17
Speaker 1: I can say this, and black people they can, they
46:18
Speaker 1: can confront me on this. But if you if you
46:21
Speaker 1: take a black pot to the restaurant when they can't
46:22
Speaker 1: go home with a doggy bag, you got them. As
46:24
Speaker 1: a customer, you do, you do, and we made that's
46:28
Speaker 1: one of the things that we've always made sure that
46:30
Speaker 1: you know our price points. It may not be for everyone,
46:34
Speaker 1: but people pay for what it is that they want,
46:36
Speaker 1: and we make sure that you get the value as well.
46:39
Speaker 1: So you're paying. But you also, I mean, all of
46:41
Speaker 1: our plates are sharable. We give you a lot of foods,
46:45
Speaker 1: a lot of food you sure do so, so you
46:47
Speaker 1: understood that, you know, and I would tell you that.
46:50
Speaker 1: Just let's talk about the basic turkey leg. Okay, I've
46:53
Speaker 1: I've tried to man up. I've been at Disney, I've
46:56
Speaker 1: been an amusement park, and I'm trying to man up.
46:58
Speaker 1: Go get my turkey leg. Canna say, I'm gonna finish
47:01
Speaker 1: this and lord, note it has beaten me every time,
47:04
Speaker 1: just the turkey leg okay, has beating your board back. Okay,
47:11
Speaker 1: I'm looking about trying to hand this off to somebody
47:12
Speaker 1: because you know, when you're walking to our amusement park.
47:14
Speaker 1: You got the turkey, la, you gotta do something with
47:16
Speaker 1: it because you're not eating anymore. Okay, so you go
47:19
Speaker 1: in the restaurant and then y'all, I'm gonna say, call
47:22
Speaker 1: y'all crazy because y'all not all stuffed it. Yeah, it's
47:27
Speaker 1: crazy people thinking like that. You're crazy. People are geniuses. Okay,
47:30
Speaker 1: it's a genius about this whole thing that they took
47:32
Speaker 1: a basic piece of meat that is that it's impossible
47:36
Speaker 1: for a normal person to eat. Then they're gonna go
47:41
Speaker 1: just the crazy part. We're gonna put something else in there,
47:44
Speaker 1: extra stuff, extra stuff. And then so so that's the part. Now,
47:48
Speaker 1: when y'all was I was shuttling people in, you didn't
47:51
Speaker 1: have the stuff part of the campaign yet. Correct. Okay,
47:55
Speaker 1: when did that craziness developed? Kill? When who thought that?
47:59
Speaker 1: I live know what you who thought of that? I
48:03
Speaker 1: have to give credit? What credit is? It was? That
48:05
Speaker 1: was his idea to stuff to turulate. See he out
48:08
Speaker 1: there to people, to people, they think of stuff like that.
48:17
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, because he knows he knows the
48:21
Speaker 1: value of extra cause see I used to when I
48:23
Speaker 1: when I was when I was living in Houston, I
48:25
Speaker 1: used to onload trucks and the food trucks come by.
48:29
Speaker 1: So everything you look at you always want some extra
48:31
Speaker 1: and all your your fantasized. But if I got this,
48:34
Speaker 1: I put this over top. See he's one of he's
48:36
Speaker 1: one of the people you should put food on the plate.
48:38
Speaker 1: He don't care if it touches. Some people don't like that.
48:42
Speaker 1: And I'm that person that doesn't like that. I'm saying,
48:44
Speaker 1: but he don't care. It's all going down one one pipe.
48:48
Speaker 1: That's the same thing. See he liked me, he like.
48:53
Speaker 1: So what they have done, these crazy this crazy couple.
48:56
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that this amazing restaurant called
48:59
Speaker 1: the Turkey Leg Hut in Houston, Texas, have said, look,
49:03
Speaker 1: we got this big old was meat. We're gonna jazz
49:07
Speaker 1: it up. Now, what was the first thing. What was
49:09
Speaker 1: the first jazz that you added to the beat? There?
49:13
Speaker 1: The first jazz that we added was the dirty rice.
49:17
Speaker 1: I was the first. Ya, Yes, they knew exactly. And
49:20
Speaker 1: then thereafter we had the shrimp. And now Alfredo saw
49:27
Speaker 1: see they went jazzy right there had to be a
49:29
Speaker 1: little higher than normal though that You just don't add
49:32
Speaker 1: shrimp on a turkey leg and just keep it normal
49:34
Speaker 1: for you now see dirty rights. You can keep that
49:39
Speaker 1: reasonable right there, but that you gotta have to see
49:43
Speaker 1: the thing about just I love about what I'm talking
49:45
Speaker 1: about it because see when people come in the restaurants
49:48
Speaker 1: like that, you gotta have a price point. I learned
49:50
Speaker 1: that from Thorn concert. Everybody. Everybody don't want to buy
49:53
Speaker 1: the twenty dollar ticket. Some people want to. They wanted
49:56
Speaker 1: Pacific one to seventified dollar ticket because they think it
49:59
Speaker 1: has more value. Alright, so certain client teller they have
50:03
Speaker 1: they want that high end. This is very true. Yes, otherwise,
50:11
Speaker 1: and that's actually our best seller. See I know it's
50:16
Speaker 1: my fond and that goes back to people pay for
50:19
Speaker 1: what it is that they want. Okay, cool, now, I
50:23
Speaker 1: don't think I missed this question. What gave you the
50:25
Speaker 1: idea to stuff or turkey leg? Like I said, that
50:30
Speaker 1: was my husband's idea, you know, he we were playing
50:33
Speaker 1: around with everything. You know how we the original turkey leg,
50:38
Speaker 1: the regular turkey leg. It has stuffing in it, but
50:40
Speaker 1: it's it's stuffed with different seasonings, um, different vegetables, things
50:45
Speaker 1: that we I mean, you know, things that we've incorporated
50:48
Speaker 1: into the turkey leg. So it's not a regular turkey leg.
50:50
Speaker 1: It's not a walk around the fair holding turkey leg.
50:54
Speaker 1: It's there's a process to how we do our turkey legs.
50:58
Speaker 1: And then thereafter, you know, he was like, you know
51:01
Speaker 1: we you know, we always try to challenge each other, slim,
51:04
Speaker 1: if that's what he calls me, slam, I think we should,
51:07
Speaker 1: you know, maybe stuffing with dirty rice. And I'm like,
51:09
Speaker 1: what dirty right, Yeah, I'm telling you it's gonna work.
51:12
Speaker 1: It's don't work. And I'm like, okay, I don't see it,
51:15
Speaker 1: but let's do it. And so when we went into
51:18
Speaker 1: the brick and mortar, we stopped the turkey leg and
51:22
Speaker 1: just like you know, when I was trying to tell
51:24
Speaker 1: him about the season and and he told me we
51:26
Speaker 1: didn't need to do it, the same thing happened. People
51:29
Speaker 1: came from everywhere to try to stop circulate. Now, that's
51:33
Speaker 1: that's really amazing. So so let's talk about your journey. Okay,
51:37
Speaker 1: before that, you had two jobs that were not not
51:40
Speaker 1: not cool and very related. That's not what you guys, correct.
51:44
Speaker 1: You had to transportation, you transporting people back and forth.
51:46
Speaker 1: You decided to feed the people. Are you transporting them?
51:48
Speaker 1: Make a little extra money on side? That's all. That's
51:50
Speaker 1: just like a little bobby stand, you know, we're doing
51:52
Speaker 1: to come out of the nightclub at three o'clock in
51:54
Speaker 1: the morning. You always had the guy there with the
51:56
Speaker 1: with the hot links, you know, and they some reason
51:59
Speaker 1: they taste real good at three o'clock in the morning.
52:01
Speaker 1: Same hot link. It during the daylight don't taste to say,
52:04
Speaker 1: but three o'clock in the morning, that hot link was
52:06
Speaker 1: was cracke. And so that's true. The whole part about
52:10
Speaker 1: moving towards the brick and more, which is the which
52:13
Speaker 1: is the really the fear part of it, the business
52:15
Speaker 1: planning part of it, because you're about to take a
52:17
Speaker 1: rich because you gotta sign a lease and you have
52:19
Speaker 1: to have a certain level of you know, inventory to
52:23
Speaker 1: say this is going to be successful. Walk us through
52:25
Speaker 1: that process, because that's what money making conversation is always about.
52:29
Speaker 1: We have a look about a minute, leyoff. We don't
52:31
Speaker 1: I like to wrap that thought up in the next break,
52:33
Speaker 1: but please start us all about the whole process of
52:35
Speaker 1: the bricket mortar. So you know, our how we started
52:41
Speaker 1: was very unique. It wasn't you know, the typical you know,
52:45
Speaker 1: we're gonna seek brick and mortar and this is what
52:47
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. It was actually got a phone call
52:51
Speaker 1: from someone that he went to school with about a
52:53
Speaker 1: location that UM didn't have much business and with the
52:58
Speaker 1: following that we had garnered while we were out there
53:00
Speaker 1: in the field. It was like, hey, you know you
53:03
Speaker 1: all have a following, would you be interested in coming
53:06
Speaker 1: and you know, just checking out the kitchen seeing if
53:09
Speaker 1: this is the place that you all want to continue
53:10
Speaker 1: to sell turkey legs and UM, and that was it.
53:15
Speaker 1: So we you know, we went over there. We didn't
53:16
Speaker 1: know anything about running a restaurant. Everything with us and
53:20
Speaker 1: I think that's why we appreciate it so much more
53:23
Speaker 1: has been trial and error. White people, they were standing
53:25
Speaker 1: along restaurant life'll do that. That's very true. Black people.
53:30
Speaker 1: They're very impatient people, very impatient people. It has to
53:34
Speaker 1: be something behind that dope that they're gonna keep that place.
53:38
Speaker 1: That's why when somebody cuts in front of him, there's
53:40
Speaker 1: a problem all give doing. If it's if it's uh,
53:43
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey, Oh Steve, I don't care. I don't care. No,
53:50
Speaker 1: they don't, they don't, They do not care, and they
53:53
Speaker 1: get upset, get upset now, so on Tuesdays. You also
53:57
Speaker 1: do a live music at the at the Rig. You
54:00
Speaker 1: know turkey leg hut Okay, correct, Yes, we do live
54:04
Speaker 1: band seven thirty every Tuesday. But you can do You'll
54:09
Speaker 1: be jamming. You know your turkey leg jamming. You know
54:12
Speaker 1: your turkey leg to music, grooving to the beat. Yeah,
54:17
Speaker 1: the kid, y'all on fire. You guys are on fire.
54:20
Speaker 1: You love No, No, I gotta ask this, you know.
54:24
Speaker 1: I'm all right. Like I said, I graduated from the
54:26
Speaker 1: University Houston. Have they have they on you yet as
54:30
Speaker 1: a as a as an alumnus of the school. We
54:33
Speaker 1: yet have they honored you? No? Not chet. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of the my my, the coaches
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Speaker 1: come in, they bring a lot of the women's women's South.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna change that. We're gonna change that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get a little call because we're Sean McDonald
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Speaker 1: telling you you're special. You're one our one of our
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Speaker 1: shining lights of the University of Houston. I have a
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Speaker 1: lower with my wife for Universe Houston next month, and
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Speaker 1: so we're gonna come back after. We're gonna come back
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Speaker 1: a celebrated Turkey legod because I'm bringing up by there,
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Speaker 1: probably bring everybody over there. Okay. So I want to
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Speaker 1: let you know that I'm proud you took your time
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Speaker 1: to come on my show. I'm proud that you did.
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Speaker 1: You shared your story and you honestly shared your story.
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Speaker 1: And it's about effort, it's about dreams, it's about being
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Speaker 1: able to accomplish something through hard work and education. But again,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna see me on Friday. I'm gonna be well
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Speaker 1: dressed now. I can't come in there not looking like
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Speaker 1: I'm right, you know. But I know I better come
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Speaker 1: earlier because I can't cut in front of your crowd.
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Speaker 1: But you keep winning. And please tell your husband next
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Speaker 1: time we do this show, I need him. I need
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Speaker 1: to talk to my board Lynn. Okay. As host of
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