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Herman Moore discusses transitioning from NFL to entrepreneurship owning Golden Grooming Co. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest is a former NFL star Herman Moore.
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  Speaker 1: Herman isn't the football player who now owns a business.
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  Speaker 1: He's a businessman who happens to be played professional football.
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  Speaker 1: Football is his playing career. That's something he did. Like
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  Speaker 1: everybody has something they've done in their past, what should
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  Speaker 1: you hold on to it? And he's made that transition
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  Speaker 1: as a very successful NFL analysts promoting products as defender Centabon.
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  Speaker 1: I love Centabon business consultant, corporate and nonprofits. He has
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  Speaker 1: been trading cryptocurrency, which I know nothing about, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying he's an expert. Well, we definitely got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that because that has been the top of
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  Speaker 1: my list. Is has been the headlines of every financial
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  Speaker 1: trade magazine the last couple of years. Is Crystal Currency.
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  Speaker 1: And he is the founder of what all these products
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  Speaker 1: you see in front of me, Golden Grooming. And I've
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  Speaker 1: had this product for about a month the schedule interview.
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  Speaker 1: But guess what, I've been sneaking and using it. Now
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  Speaker 1: you know you kind of holding on to it. Its
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  Speaker 1: products so good. And this this little calm right here
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  Speaker 1: I'm holding up. It sits on my desk because I
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  Speaker 1: have with everybody know, I have a nice little beer.
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  Speaker 1: I keep my beer tight. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: The company's mission is to help black young men and
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  Speaker 1: adult men look and feel their best because we believe
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  Speaker 1: that when you look good, you feel good, and then
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  Speaker 1: when you also do good. Please work with the money
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  Speaker 1: making conversations. Herman, more leasure. Thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: having me. Hey, herman, I'm telling you man this like here,
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  Speaker 1: because my staff there was We finally got her and
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  Speaker 1: I said, hey man, I I kind of know him
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  Speaker 1: because this little comb here sits on my desk every day,
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  Speaker 1: so at least for three or four time is on
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  Speaker 1: my face. And so these are the type of products
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  Speaker 1: that you have for Golden Grooming that makes everything accessible
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  Speaker 1: and makes it comfortable for a person like me can
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  Speaker 1: carry in your bag. I can like this little calmer here,
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  Speaker 1: I can slip it into my top pocket and nobody
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  Speaker 1: would ever notice it. Correct, That's that's correct. What we
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  Speaker 1: look for is grooming is something that I think we
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  Speaker 1: all need to pay attention to, especially when you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at trying to make sure you present yourself as your best.
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  Speaker 1: And we we know that when you you feel good
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  Speaker 1: and you look good, you do good. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: just that's just a fact, and I think if we
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  Speaker 1: provide those products and we're not just products, but high
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  Speaker 1: quality products and an affordable price that allows us to
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  Speaker 1: be able to make an impact there. Well, you know
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  Speaker 1: the interesting thing about all your product because they sent
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  Speaker 1: me a nice little line from the brush too, like
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  Speaker 1: an off air. I shared a little secret with you.
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  Speaker 1: You have thisself small patch solid cologne, which I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen in my life. You know, we all know cologns
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  Speaker 1: coming a little scrop bottle, a little spray you have
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  Speaker 1: what what what made you think of this idea? Because
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  Speaker 1: I love it and again something else I care with
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  Speaker 1: me when I travel, So it really it makes me
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  Speaker 1: believe that you are a forward thing an individual because
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking of things that a person like me who's
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  Speaker 1: super busy, who wants to stay groom but also likes
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  Speaker 1: to smell good but not I would like to use
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  Speaker 1: the word discreetly and also carried column necessary discreetly, but
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  Speaker 1: still have them available because they have high quality. Talk
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  Speaker 1: about this, uh, this small past solid cologne. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: solid cologne is a nice little product because when you
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  Speaker 1: typically use aerosol or you use a spray, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it that's being lost in the air, and
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  Speaker 1: you know when you're trying to transition it from that
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  Speaker 1: actual packaging to your your body or your your fabric
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  Speaker 1: or wherever you you play, Sir Colone with this, it's
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  Speaker 1: just an application that simply rub it on and it
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  Speaker 1: stays on pretty good. It really has nice sense and smells.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be coming out with a different line of
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  Speaker 1: the solid cologne and not only gives you further a
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  Speaker 1: longer yield in terms of the product, but it also
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  Speaker 1: gives you the convenience that you've mentioned, being able to
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  Speaker 1: take it with you wherever you want and if you
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  Speaker 1: want to, you know, just tap it in and refresh
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit. You can give you that. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I can't take credit for that. That is our our
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  Speaker 1: our development team, That is our our scientists and our
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  Speaker 1: chemists that we have that constantly of working on ways
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  Speaker 1: to provide better quality products and also just innovative products
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  Speaker 1: to the to the marketplace. Well, you know this is
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  Speaker 1: why I love it because of the fact you're absolutely right,
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  Speaker 1: because you've seen some people they spread in the air
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  Speaker 1: and they walk into the walk into the aroma of
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  Speaker 1: the scent or and sometimes when I have the Aerosault
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  Speaker 1: I have pointed towards me, and then it hits sometimes
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  Speaker 1: on my clothes, not exactly where I wanted, and then
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  Speaker 1: I finally have control of my cologne. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: really like about it. If I want to put it
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  Speaker 1: on my neck, I want to put it on my wrist.
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  Speaker 1: I feel comfortable with that, and I really really think
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  Speaker 1: that this is something I've never seen this before. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I have to bring it up at the top
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  Speaker 1: of our conversation Herman, because of the fact that I
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  Speaker 1: know you're giving credit to somebody else for doing it,
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  Speaker 1: but you have to be the visionary and bringing it
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  Speaker 1: to the stores. Correct. Yeah, that's correct, and we we
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  Speaker 1: always look at also, um coming you mentioned earlier some
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  Speaker 1: of my earlier ventures like Centabon, and we looked at
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  Speaker 1: everyone had to have, for instance, like the cinnamon rolls,
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  Speaker 1: a big cinnamon role and you have to have the
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  Speaker 1: knife and the fork to eat it. Then we started
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  Speaker 1: getting into what was called manis because we want to
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  Speaker 1: have something that was a little bit more portable and
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  Speaker 1: has a different functionality to it. That's no different. You
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  Speaker 1: have to constantly look at ways to improve and innovate
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  Speaker 1: within your product category. Or your service category. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what allows you to be distinguish yourself and differentiate yourself
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  Speaker 1: from the competition. But also you're you're also addressing a
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  Speaker 1: need anytime you can solve problems. And then also we
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  Speaker 1: can also eliminate waste and add profitability to our company,
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  Speaker 1: but also give a greater yield to the customer. You're
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  Speaker 1: giving a minute of mutually beneficial value back, and I
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  Speaker 1: will take credit and the fact that that is what
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  Speaker 1: we look for. That's what I look for all the time,
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  Speaker 1: because you want to make sure that you have a
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  Speaker 1: very balanced business approach. I'll just tell you something, man,
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  Speaker 1: about send a bar. I wonder I was just gonna
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  Speaker 1: say that as a credit, you know, but you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: just bring it up in our conversation. So now you
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  Speaker 1: because I'm I'm a desert nut. Everybody knows that about me.
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  Speaker 1: Now you have the minis and then you have the
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  Speaker 1: regular huge one that I like to get that right
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  Speaker 1: when they putting the putting the uh the cream on top.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I like it when you know it's hot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you, man, And so I'm gonna just
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  Speaker 1: tell you it's the same bar. Now the mini and
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  Speaker 1: the regular, but the regulars taste so much better. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just gonna let you herman, for some reason, getting that
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  Speaker 1: big old piece of ball and breaking it up and
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  Speaker 1: taking that fuck and separating it. You can't go wrong. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know the whole packaging about the minis,
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  Speaker 1: but those those giants I call the giants since you
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  Speaker 1: have the minute now, but those are the way to
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  Speaker 1: God man, the regular size of the way to go.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you this. I can tell you're not
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  Speaker 1: eating many of those because those things pack lock calories.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody don't. Let's the sound it was rolling with love,
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  Speaker 1: and it was and we had that that to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that we know Heyshon is coming in and make
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  Speaker 1: sure his has got that extra icing on it. A
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  Speaker 1: glass of milk. Come on that, brother, you you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: run me out that store. We're gonna run me out
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  Speaker 1: that store. And I I really you know been. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go a little history because I'm a football's fan and
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  Speaker 1: so I know about your athletic abilities on the field,
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  Speaker 1: but we all know there is a time that you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna realize that you can't play anymore. You can you can.
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  Speaker 1: football player. Maybe five years, five or six years of
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  Speaker 1: a full time NFL player. Now, when did you start
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  Speaker 1: transitioning mentally interest saying I want to be what is
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  Speaker 1: my life after football? Well? I started doing it. My
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  Speaker 1: career ended a two dollars and two and I really
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  Speaker 1: started making that transition my final year two thousand, two
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  Speaker 1: thousand one. I started reading for about a year and
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  Speaker 1: learning a little bit about the industries that I wanted
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  Speaker 1: a franchise system. And I chose to go with the
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  Speaker 1: I purchased, and then from there I ended up becoming
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  Speaker 1: the second largest centem Bond partner, owning all of Florida
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  Speaker 1: and all of Michigan stores. And doing that process, I
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  Speaker 1: assembled and put together a team that would help me
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  Speaker 1: what I did is interesting. I've always been into technology,
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  Speaker 1: and getting involved with this allowed me to bring some
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  Speaker 1: not only learn all the things that my employees were
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  Speaker 1: that I was willing to put in the work. And
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  Speaker 1: that I was very much hands on, but I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: so much where it was granular and that I was
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  Speaker 1: micro managing uh them, but I was showing that there
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  Speaker 1: was there was an expectation that there was accountability on
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  Speaker 1: that to help you continue along that path? And for me,
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  Speaker 1: So it's again bringing in a lot of those that
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  Speaker 1: you know. I don't try and use the analogy of
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  Speaker 1: sports all the time, but it is is developing a
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  Speaker 1: playbook that leads you down this path to success, and
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  Speaker 1: that that's really have been all about it. So watching
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  Speaker 1: my business, when you mentioned that I put technology in place,
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  Speaker 1: I actually started to develop a back end piece on
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  Speaker 1: our point of sales systems which will allow me at
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  Speaker 1: that time to receive real time receipts UH to my computer,
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  Speaker 1: which wasn't was unheard of at that point because you
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  Speaker 1: typically had to get the printed receipts and then have
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  Speaker 1: everyone facts that to you. But we're able to develop
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  Speaker 1: programs to do that. And every time I've I've been
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  Speaker 1: part of any type of business or startup, I've looked
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  Speaker 1: at what resources are available, including technology as being a
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  Speaker 1: platform and a foundation of that work. You know, an
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  Speaker 1: interesting thing about when I listened to you, your articulation,
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  Speaker 1: your professionalism. You just happen to play football, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I consider the magic. Johns is a good friend
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  Speaker 1: of mine, and you know, even before he became a
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  Speaker 1: basketball star, he wanted to be a business owner. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be an entrepreneur, and he's and and he's
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  Speaker 1: shown it after his basketball life is ind that he's
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  Speaker 1: equally as a Hall of Famer in the business world
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  Speaker 1: as he has been on the basketball courts. What did
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  Speaker 1: it all start for you, this mentality to be an entrepreneur?
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  Speaker 1: Where did it start for you? Know, you came from
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  Speaker 1: a single parent home. Talk about that upbringing that shifted
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  Speaker 1: you in this direction about where you are at today,
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  Speaker 1: it was always you know, it goes back to my
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  Speaker 1: my youth. I started out in school and I was
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  Speaker 1: in the head Start program, which has been in the
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  Speaker 1: news as of late in some areas, and uh, you're
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  Speaker 1: you're giving you you're already put at a limitation sometimes
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: before you get started. I noticed when I went into
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: a college or high school, I was always directed into
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: courses that were really weren't challenging me. They weren't gonna
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: they weren't going to stretch me or put me in
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: a place where I get to go and say, Okay,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: can I test and utilize all the ability that I
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: have now? They give me that opportunity in sports when
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: they can see that potential in the athleticism, But why
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: can't you see that potentially and my my my ability
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: from a mental standpoint and from an intelligence standpoint. Um,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: and quite often sometimes we start to buy into that.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: So I stopped buying into that, uh long into you know,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: very early into my football career. Uh midway through my
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: my college career. I started realizing that, you know what,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take these classes just that it's gonna
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: keep me eligible. I want to take classes that we're
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: gonna provide me a career any event that football doesn't
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: work out, because it's not gonna be long term transition
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: that into the football professional football stage. I started to
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: see that as much as we think we're in controlful,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: we don't own the team. We don't own the ability
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: to to really create our faith. Uh, you could be
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: a great player. And at that time I was doing
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: really well. But if I have a disagreement with my coach,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: he still has the ability, just as an owner of
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: a business, to basically fire me or let me go.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: So I want to make sure I always had control
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: of my destiny. And from there I decided I would
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: never settle for good when great is available. And I
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: heard that one play and I said, you know what
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: going forward. Everything that I do, I'm always gonna push
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: the envelope. I'm always gonna try and figure out disruption
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: in a good way, not in a negative way, but
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: one that would always say am I truly trying and
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: achieving at that level that is afforded to me as
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: a person, as an individual. You know, it's really interesting
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: when I to hear you because you know the modern athlete,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and I said the model athlete. Maybe the last I
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: put you in that modern athlete group because it was
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: after two thousands that the mentality change. You know, it's
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: all about you know, football and then football in and
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: players were just shocked, you know what it was gonna
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: do with the next step. Now we have the modern
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: athlete who are planning after the game. You know, a
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: classic modern athlete is Lebron James, a classic modern athlete
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: is Magic John's a classic morthin that marthin. And modern
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: athlete is Steph Curry. You are a classic modern athlete,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: but you are earlier than them. So what who are
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: your role? Mad lose herman to point you in the
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: right direction that you should be like this, that you
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: should be prepping for this, because you seem to have
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: laid a great foundation for a future as an entrepreneur
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: post football. Right. So, being in Detroit, we are around
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of very successful former athletes like Bennie Johnson
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: UH owning and running a billion dollar enterprise, Dave being
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: former basketball player, UH professional basketball player becoming a mayor
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: as well as having successful businesses. I watched Magic Johnson.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I looked at how he started to command his brand,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: not just on the basketball court, but what he started
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to do in terms of getting the value out of that,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: not just I'm gonna show up and be the face
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: of something, but actually owning it. Um. That was that
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: was impowerful and impactful for me to see Michael Jordan's
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: going in and say, you know what, I'm gonna have
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: a brand that runs a line if I want to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: stand in the sports world that we have with the Nike,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: but I'm gonna have my own brand that is just
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: that is solely him, and it's gonna run parallel, but
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: just as powerful and more recognized than even that. And
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: he elevates like in my opinion, so it's it's those
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: are the people that I can look at, and there's many,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: many more, I'm sure if I really start to think
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: back about it, But I said, you know what I
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: see people who have pet have paved the way out
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: of a profession like mind, and that you can talk
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: about entertainment, you can talk about actors and actresses, you
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: can talk about successful business people as a whole. But
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: if the playbook is there, you just have to be
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a student and willing to receive it. And I was
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: listening to tv ja'son one time and he talked about
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: how sometimes we run behind opportunity, sometimes we run ahead
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: of it. But we got to figure out a way
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: in which we put ourselves to where we're running parallel
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: after where we're not missing it. We're not there before
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: we're supposed to be, and we're not behind it, always
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: never being able to catch up. And I've tried to
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: figure out to position myself that way. And so you
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: can take all these things in and you have a recipe,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and but you've gotta be willing to put in the work. Well,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: you know, the key is we was working. But also
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: when I read on your history, it's always about young
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: people here, like even the Golden Groom, it is about
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: young people preparing themselves, looking professional, feeling good about themselves.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: And then you have a new entrepreneursial program or your
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: foundation tackle Life Foundation that you have you launched already
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: of what stages of that foundation called tackle Life, which
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: is like tackling somebody, but tackling life instead of a
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: player on the field. So you're about tackling life. And
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: that's the foundation that is based on. Talk about it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: So the Tackle Life Foundation, I actually started running it
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: as a private organization in two thousand and nine. Uh
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: then I be I got my UM Foundation certified in
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen. And the I've always done camps. I've
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: always done something that would try and bring environment or
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: have a touch point with young adults to where we
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: can still touch them in in influence their foundational growth.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: And what I see is that you have to be
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: able to reach back and not it's not about what
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I do and what's appealing to me, but it's what
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: does the world itself offer and how do we extract
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: those different abilities and the mindset from individuals say who
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: am I and how can I take this this knowledge
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: or this opportunity and apply it to my vision in
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: my goal. So everything that we do has been around that.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: We've done programs from UH computer programming, so we designed
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: websites and build um different types of projects that require robotics.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: We also now are into e gaming and eat sports,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: which is a big thing. There's grants and scholarships, especially
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: at HBCUs that are getting really big into the sports
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and e gaming platforms. We with this entrepreneurship program. If
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: you look at the African American community, there were very entrepreneurs. However,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the failure rate is high because we don't have access
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: to not only the partnerships, the revenue of the tools.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: When I go and I meet with these large manufacturers,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the first thing I saw, Rishan was that they mentioned
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: they would love and I won't name these big retailers.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: These are your major major retailers. They said, you know what,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: we we want the African American products. We want the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: minority based products. But you know what, the product quality
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: isn't there, the labeling isn't there. They don't have the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: systems and the logistics to be able to handle the
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: workload or the capacity of the distribution that we need.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: They don't have these these things. Well, question I have
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: for them is are you providing resources through your manufacturing
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: partners to afford them that opportunity and not many work,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and then I looked at who we were and that's
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: what spawned this entrepreneurship program to say, we are a manufacturer.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: We're not relying on someone to help us. We get
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the row goods. We also, through Team eight before my
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: parent company, we do logistics and transportation and procurement and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: all these things and packaging. So we know what we'll
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: do this our sales will create an entrepreneurship program to
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: help us bring those young, aspiring people in who would
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: love to learn about manufacturing of products and services that
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: we offer, and then we would team up with them
• 24:11
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• 24:14
  Speaker 1: So we've already started this program under leadership of a
• 24:18
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• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Her name is Christie's Abacar. She's our chief marketing and
• 24:24
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• 24:29
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• 24:31
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• 24:35
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  Speaker 1: Well let me let's let's slow it down and talk
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: about it because you shed a lot. But you mentioned
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: your communication director in your CMO, and we know the name.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Tackle Life Foundations start in two thousand nine Official twenty sixteen,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: which was officially recognized as a foundation. How does one
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: is it a limit to the amount of students young adults?
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Is the age requirements? What are the requirements for participating
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: in the Tackle Life Foundation opportunities. Well, for the for
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that particular program, the Entrepreneurship program, it starts with the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: age of eight team UH. We will go below that,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: but you have to get parents involved and in your
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: executing documents with them. So we're looking at for those
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: particular programs at a at a different age group. We
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily play a cap because people can be entrepreneurial
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: all their lives and UH for us, we don't put
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: restrictions limitations there. And to qualify for that, we've created
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a website that should be up here in about a
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: month that will start to open it up to the public.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: We put we pick a few groups to work with.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: We're working with juvenile justice system to work with some
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: that are are incarcerated and or are getting out that
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: need to have a place in a VISION, so we
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: wanted to start areas of need would be there. We're
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: also working with some of the youth organizations where we
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: will hancel a a few that have vision to come
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: in and participate in our program. But we're gonna open
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: us up and uh if you qualify, that'll be great,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: but we will do you know, some contract manufacturing as well.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: I have to mention that for those that are looking
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: for partnerships that will help them scale so they don't
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: have to do it out their house, right, uh, So
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: they can definitely reach out to us uh in at
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: that capacity, and we're gonna do as much as we
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: can within our means to to be able to help. Well.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I would tell you this, I want to know more
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: and I would love to learn more be a part
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: of this for you, uh my talents. I've been doing
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: this since I was eighteen years old, uplifting educating our
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: backgrounds degrees in mathematics, my minor sociology work five years
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: for IBM, so I have executive training and I'm entrepreneur
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: so and hearing this for the first time on this show,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just let you know if you're looking for volunteers,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I always you know, I available, and not just saying
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that because I'm on this show trying to getting good
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: good with you because you are already got my groom
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: and stuff. I don't need you no more, but I
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: just know that what you're doing is important, especially for
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: men of color and UH. And if if I'm in
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a position to help you, I will help you. Okay, Now,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate that, and by all means I will
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: reach out because I can't do it alone. So I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you. Cool. Well, I'm goning to switch
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: s gears to another subject that I know nothing about,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: but it's making the headloans cryptocurrency. First of all, explain
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: to my listeners and views what exactly is cryptocurrency. Well,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: it depends on who you're speaking with. There there are
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: many of us who think that it is a decentralized
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: service in the financial market that allows UH very seamless
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: transactions and the purchase of of just basically this this
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: coin that think is just a phantom value, but it
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: is a way in which to be able to move
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: UM dollars around UH in a in a digital space,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: versus using FIAT, which is you know what we use
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: now the American dollar or something that is more physical
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: and tangible that's tied to a UM some type of collateral.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: But it's something that I think it's worth looking at.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: And as I mentioned to you earlier, you know I'm
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: not an expert on it, but what I've learned is
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I look at the value of systems, and I look
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: at blockchain technology, and I look at a way in
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: which you improve on some of the deficiencies that you
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: find in the financial system. And that's what I think
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: is grown. Has pretty much grown quite a bit, and
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: it's caught the attention of many of those in the
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: financial space. But the regulations are a lot lighter uh
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: than what uh an unregulated than what you see in
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the central banking system. But as those things get ironed out,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I think there is a play here. I don't think
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: it's going away. Well I'm I'm pretty sure it's not.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: You can put regulations there, but there's just too many
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: places in parts of the world, and it's a global participation.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: This isn't just about the United States. So for me,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I mainly just play around with some of the smaller coins,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: but I will find some that, especially Ethereum, that is
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: where I put more of my time in. Every well,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: before I close, you know, we talked about the Golden grooming,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: which I like. I said, this is at my desk
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: every day. I'm liking, you know, I use this all right,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I use this man makes me feel good. I like
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to believe it makes me look good. Okay about coming
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: from my dad right there, I'm grooming brother right in
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: front of you on this interview. Okay and that, But
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: more importantly, we talked about you. You you're you're, you're
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: giving back. We talked about your ability to run a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: country from running around your business from state across this
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: country using technology. Now you're in the podcast world and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: you I'm a big fan of this deep deep force. Uh,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: sidekicker yours lot much Brown? How did you why didn't
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: get decide I had to get into the podcast world
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: with offensive tackle Lomas Brown talking about is that you're
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: former Detroit ty Detroit Lions teammates. Yeah, so with moments. Uh,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: what a great, great guy. We've ended up being teammates.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: When I came in one he was probably the toughest
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: guy on me because lineman don't like for you to
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: make mistakes because if you drop a pass that could
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: have led fifty yards closer to the end zone, that's
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: fifty last yards they have to work off of. So uh,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: they threatened me quite a bit, which made me an
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: all pro wide receiver and actually do my job, but
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: afterwards he is someone who is very much engaged in
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the community. He's very, very philanthropic. Uh, he's just the nicest,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: nicest guy you could ever meet. And because of that,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I wanted to figure out a space for him within
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: first and foremost our company. So bringing him in is
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: our chief Diversity and business development arm. That was awesome.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: He's done a tremendous job there. But then he and
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I both have been in media for over twenty years,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and having that background, we decided why not build a
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: studio in our office. Why not come up with our
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: own camera crew, our podcast equipment and start to do
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: our own show. So we started a show. Because Lom
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: is always if you don't if you get to know him,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the first thing he had he will say when he
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: leaves a meeting with you, say next time we get
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: together less great bread. And so we decided to call
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: our show Breaking Bread and UH. From then on, we've
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: been having a blast. It allows us to talk about
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: things that are relevant to us, things that are relevant
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: to our community and and to our base of listeners
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: and viewers. So that's UH, it's been fun, as you know,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: is having your own show. It's liberating and it's rewarding
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: because it gives you a voice in a place. Uh
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: that is again another channel on a platform that's supported
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: to us that you know we can we can go
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: out and be ourselves. Well, I I'm a fan of you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Lomas. And uh, how does one
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  Speaker 1: does people get on your show? Man? Just you and
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  Speaker 1: him talking all the time, y'all just hogging all the information?
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  Speaker 1: And we're not gonna just hog it all about ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: who's she's running that show for us, She's running the background.
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