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RonReaco Lee, Chef Andre Rush, Karen Lee and Dana Sorey · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: it's tied to relationships, is tied to a resume that
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Speaker 1: I benefit. But that's a that's a that's a journey.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people don't want to get to the
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Speaker 1: journey part. Uh. That's why I created Money Making Conversation.
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Speaker 1: My guests on the show the day I really want
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Speaker 1: to talk about he has something that is very similar
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Speaker 1: to money Making Conversations. So without further ado, let me
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Speaker 1: introduce him. So when you started talking to him, because
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Speaker 1: he is on the phone, my next guest as an
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Speaker 1: award winning music producer, songwriter, musician, arranger, composer and founder
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Speaker 1: of Sea Bass Entertainment and see Blake Studios, Sea Bass
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Speaker 1: Entertainment and see Blake Studios or his full house production companies.
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Speaker 1: He has also launched a stay at home money movement
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Speaker 1: on social media to share his knowledge and provide mentorship
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Speaker 1: from his industry experience with others who want to develop
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Speaker 1: careers in the music business. This kind of sounds like
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Speaker 1: money making Conversations, which is good because I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: that that's his idea, my idea. And we're going to
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Speaker 1: talk about how he's approaching his end of the business
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Speaker 1: and I'm approaching my end of the business. And guess what,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna create a lot of winners on the phone.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making Conversation. I missed him at
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Speaker 1: the ESPN live broadcast. They told me he was there
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Speaker 1: and I couldn't get over to see him. Please welcome,
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Speaker 1: Dana says to buddy, Hey man, I heard I missed you. Man,
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Speaker 1: he was at the end. Let me back up with
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Speaker 1: last a couple of weeks. September twenty uh Stephen A.
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Speaker 1: Smith brought ESPN First Take to Williamington, Delaware to promote
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Speaker 1: hbc USED College Fair, where we was encouraging seniors in
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Speaker 1: high school to come to this HBCU featured event. We
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Speaker 1: had like twenty three colleges who had confirmed from HBCU.
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Speaker 1: Thirteen of them were registering students on the spot in
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Speaker 1: the words, if you brought your S, a T, score,
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Speaker 1: a CT score, your transcript, you can register. So far,
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Speaker 1: they've generated over four million dollars in scholarships that have
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Speaker 1: been distributed from that college fair. And then they tell
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Speaker 1: me that you used at the live broadcast. Correct, I
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Speaker 1: was there. Yeah, I actually live in Nork Newark, Delaware,
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Speaker 1: which is no more than six or seven minutes away.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a big I'm a big sports fan,
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Speaker 1: so I had to definitely come and check out Stephen A. Smith. Well,
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Speaker 1: I wish I know, you know that that's my man,
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Speaker 1: and so in the future we'll connect. That would be
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Speaker 1: our connection because I appreciate you coming there. What was
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Speaker 1: your take at the lib Brards what what would your
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Speaker 1: take away from the experience. I want to make sure
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Speaker 1: any of everybody who attended really got an HBCU experience
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Speaker 1: and walked away with a sense of the culture of
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Speaker 1: the HBCU. What was definitely definitely, uh, informative and exciting
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Speaker 1: all at the same time. I actually have a daughter
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Speaker 1: that sugerior in UM the University of Delaware UM, so
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Speaker 1: I I understand what I took away was from Stephen A. Smith,
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Speaker 1: you know going to Western Salem. You know you basically
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Speaker 1: you know what we always is teaching our black community.
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Speaker 1: You two can do this. You two can make this happen.
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Speaker 1: And it was just really great to see Max and
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Speaker 1: Molly actually show love to him and you know, praise
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Speaker 1: colleges and an office surrounding colleges to let them know
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Speaker 1: that the black community, you know, if we put in
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Speaker 1: the work, it definitely can happen. It's what you put
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Speaker 1: into it, and that's that's that's the story of your life.
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Speaker 1: Because right now I want to say you're on fire.
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Speaker 1: Let me read some things here, like I'm reading this article.
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Speaker 1: Gospel hit making producer songwriter Dana Surrey recently received three
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Speaker 1: gm a Dove Award nomination for his work with Jason's
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Speaker 1: Nelson and The Answer and Miranda Curtis and I'm all in.
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Speaker 1: That's just a list of the Grammy nominations that you've
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Speaker 1: been put up for. When it when it comes Surgeon
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Speaker 1: that you like that, Dana, how how you know? Because
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Speaker 1: you've been working at it's not overnight And we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about the journey a little bit. That's why I
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Speaker 1: like to doing this show. Just talk about the journey
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Speaker 1: a little bit so people can know that your story
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Speaker 1: can be their story. But it's a lot of work,
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Speaker 1: a lot of pay, is a lot of nosed tied
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Speaker 1: to a lot of yeses. That enables to be interviewing
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Speaker 1: you about the success that you're haven't right now correct yes, sir, well,
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Speaker 1: I think the most important part is, like you say,
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Speaker 1: it's it's to build up. I start off as a
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Speaker 1: musician and willing brun New Jersey, and you know, you
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Speaker 1: you be a musician, and you that comes from starting
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Speaker 1: in church to you know, hoping you can get a gig.
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Speaker 1: And I hopped on a are a couple of R
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Speaker 1: and B gigs to start working for Highland Rectors where
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Speaker 1: we're pretty much just playing for any artists. Then you know,
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Speaker 1: any artists they add. So we we worked from Drew
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Speaker 1: Hill to Montella Jordan's too, you know, to Kelly Price.
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Speaker 1: You know. So I worked my way from the bottom,
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Speaker 1: uh from playing strings to pianos to musical directing and
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Speaker 1: too you know. And then I hopped into the gospel
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Speaker 1: world and with Ty Trivitt and you know, end up
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Speaker 1: producing on his albums and um, and then that worked
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Speaker 1: worked worked this way into you know, I just really
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Speaker 1: got tired of telling you know, imagine man going on
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Speaker 1: tours and three or four months or on a time.
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Speaker 1: So these people were like, Okay, if I'm leaving my
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Speaker 1: home for three or four months, I have to make
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Speaker 1: sure that my wife's restrain. H my, my, you tap
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Speaker 1: my job. I'm not gonna be back to three or
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Speaker 1: four months. And then the artist caused you when you
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Speaker 1: know your week out and says, Hey, you know, the
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Speaker 1: artist heard his hip, so the tour is canceled and
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Speaker 1: my hip is fine, Sean, you know fine over brother,
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Speaker 1: I was like, how did this happen? And you know,
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Speaker 1: so I said, man, I've got to find a better
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Speaker 1: way of doing what I loved and being able to
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Speaker 1: my own situation and and and that you know, brought
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Speaker 1: me to you know what, I need to stay home
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Speaker 1: and figure out a way of building writing songs, producing
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Speaker 1: songs right from the circumference of my home, and be
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Speaker 1: able to you know, make some real money. And that's
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Speaker 1: what I started out to do. I started to just
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Speaker 1: built write a whole bunch of songs that really probably
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Speaker 1: sucked in the beginning. But you know, songwriting is like
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Speaker 1: a muscle man, the more you do it, the more
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Speaker 1: strength will come to it. And you know, after a while,
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Speaker 1: I started to you know, pitch my songs to people
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Speaker 1: that are really respected and that turned into a Boys
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Speaker 1: the Men placement Back in two thousand and that that
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Speaker 1: one song that I did with Boys the Men end
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Speaker 1: up really uh ended up on America's Top Model first season.
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Speaker 1: Thirty seconds of that that song, Rashaan paid me forty
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Speaker 1: four grand uh and I was only fifty of the work.
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Speaker 1: You know, I had just split on my earnings for
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Speaker 1: Boys the Men. So that forty four graham Man, I
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Speaker 1: built me a studio room. I got myself some equipment,
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Speaker 1: and I've been going hard ever since, bro hard to paint.
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Speaker 1: And you know, my cat my catalog has built up.
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Speaker 1: And now label I know all the labels have relationships
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Speaker 1: with them, and I get pretty much walk artists into
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Speaker 1: these labels and these relationships and get them some really
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Speaker 1: cool record deals if the artist is ready and capable
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Speaker 1: of making that happen. Because I still take some work
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Speaker 1: on the artists. Plant also absolutely work on that. It's
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Speaker 1: really interesting because we're going to have a long term relationship.
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Speaker 1: And just tell you, because your story is so similar
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Speaker 1: my very successful stand up comments writing I was. I
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Speaker 1: was a lot of people always ask me, Wow, why
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Speaker 1: did you go behind the scene? Because again, I got
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Speaker 1: tired of comedy clubs. I got kind of tours inconsistency.
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Speaker 1: So I became a writer, sitcom writer, and I became
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Speaker 1: a producer because I can control. It's something about weekly
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Speaker 1: checks that I liked versus you know what I'm talking about,
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Speaker 1: versus you know, a check whenever or you go out there, well,
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Speaker 1: you know we thought the two or b three months,
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Speaker 1: but it's only gonna be a month. Hey, I got
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Speaker 1: two more extra months of bills that I was because
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Speaker 1: you didn't know as a talent or This is the
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Speaker 1: thing about the talent is that once you tell a
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Speaker 1: talent that the check is coming, that check has spent.
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Speaker 1: It has been it has been sectioned off into food,
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Speaker 1: into car and every rent everything. So when you tell
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Speaker 1: me it's not coming anymore, that's a problem in your
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Speaker 1: life financially, and it really starts affecting you. So you
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Speaker 1: have to figure out a new plan. That's why his
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Speaker 1: new plan was, Hey man, I'm produced, I'm right, I'm controlled.
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Speaker 1: They're tired of people telling me I got I got
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Speaker 1: money coming and they can change their mind when they
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Speaker 1: feel like it, but didn't ask me. And the reason
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Speaker 1: I like what you're doing, Dana, because you you know
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Speaker 1: me when I say this, which is true. I hate
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Speaker 1: people out there selling stuff, telling people that can do
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Speaker 1: stuff but don't have the resume. They're all hype. They
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Speaker 1: have not accomplished anything, and it's thousands of them out
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Speaker 1: they're talking about how they can make you successful, how
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Speaker 1: they can get you on TV, how they can get
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Speaker 1: your song published, how they can teach you how to
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Speaker 1: write a script. How did you tell you how to
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Speaker 1: manage people? And they have no resume to to back
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Speaker 1: that up, but they're out there. So when I see
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Speaker 1: something somebody like you, it is a breath of fresh
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Speaker 1: air because you are the truth. And guess what more
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Speaker 1: people need to be talking to the truth than having
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Speaker 1: conversations with the life. Yeah, bro, you know, I was
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Speaker 1: reading the scripture today and it's it said you know
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Speaker 1: tightest too, And they bally say when you teach, teach
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Speaker 1: truth because if you teach truth, it would never be
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Speaker 1: able to be criticized. And I really took that as man.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just gonna tell my story. I no
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Speaker 1: one can tell my story better than I can tell
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Speaker 1: my story. And I'm encouraging my friends and peers in
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Speaker 1: college to come and tell their stories because man, a
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Speaker 1: story and a testimony can change someone's life. I understand that.
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Speaker 1: And with the stay home money movement, the reoccurring theme
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Speaker 1: Sean is some some people just may not have the characteristic,
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Speaker 1: characteristic or the charisma to speak up like I do.
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Speaker 1: So I tell these people you if you don't introduce yourself,
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Speaker 1: like if I meet Quincy Jones, reshan, I'm not wasting
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Speaker 1: my time asking Quincy for a selfie. I want to
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Speaker 1: do is I want to get Quincy's attention to say, hey, bro,
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Speaker 1: I remember when you studied music in Germany with with
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Speaker 1: this composer, Like why you did that? I remember when
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Speaker 1: you you know you lost your son and that how that?
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Speaker 1: It's like I know a story because I studied Quincy Jones.
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Speaker 1: Now I intrigue Quincy Jones Like this dude no really
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Speaker 1: wants to know the realm. Mean, he doesn't want a picture.
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Speaker 1: So I teach my students. You know, when you meet
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Speaker 1: someone that you look up to, it's not about taking
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Speaker 1: a picture, It's about having a conversation. Hi, my name
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Speaker 1: is Dani Ray. I want to be like you when
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Speaker 1: I grow up. Man, Like I saw you get over
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Speaker 1: this hurdle. How can you help me through it? So
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get these people to catch fire, man,
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Speaker 1: really catch fire and let and overwork everybody. They may
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Speaker 1: be more talented to you, but overwork them over you.
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Speaker 1: Don't be a love average, have the energy of being
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Speaker 1: next level. We gotta be. We have to be boss minded, boss,
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Speaker 1: have a boss mentality, and that's my whole vibe. Man.
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Speaker 1: I want to help people get to the next level
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Speaker 1: because I've been there and I've been there, done that.
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Speaker 1: I'm and I'm forever student, always learning something new every day.
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Speaker 1: So that's the whole vibe, man. To get these people
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Speaker 1: here and get them. I'm excited about their value. You're
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Speaker 1: talking to the creative to stay home money movement. He
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Speaker 1: also has been nominated for three g M A Dove Awards.
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Speaker 1: That would be announcing a live on the broadcast October twentieth, Dana,
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Speaker 1: I got thirty seconds left my man, Uh, can you
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Speaker 1: come back on my show? Help me promote when you
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Speaker 1: at the big House with the stay at home movement?
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Speaker 1: Want I want to be a part of that. I
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Speaker 1: want to be a part of that because, like I said,
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Speaker 1: you my job. You gotta be my wife, my daughter.
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm getting your rule with the master. Sweet. I
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Speaker 1: love it. Man. We're gonna talk to my brother. You
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Speaker 1: and I were connected, man, we are truly truly connected.
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Speaker 1: tell you right now, we can't compare physiques where we
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Speaker 1: can't we we we we we we just stopped. We
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Speaker 1: just stopped it right there. Well we can do is
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Speaker 1: talk about our love for the military. I just, uh,
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Speaker 1: this is a special interview for me. I just wrapped
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Speaker 1: up a contract for the Air National Guard where I
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Speaker 1: was the chief Marketing Officers, where I oversaw all the
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Speaker 1: website decision making, the the social media posts, all the
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Speaker 1: media buys for all fifty states the United States and
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Speaker 1: all three countries which was from Puerto Rico and the
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Speaker 1: Virgin Islands, as well as watching the d C oversall
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Speaker 1: a live events, the recruitment. When I wrapped a contract,
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Speaker 1: the recruitment level was up to one four percent for
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Speaker 1: the our National Guard and it was an experience I
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Speaker 1: would personally tell you I've had a lot of success
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Speaker 1: stories in my life, but it was something about being
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Speaker 1: responsible for for the country, being able to say that
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Speaker 1: I enable a position my my talents that God gave
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Speaker 1: me to uh safely, I would say secure this country
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Speaker 1: because of the people that I convinced were important that
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Speaker 1: the Guard could be an important player, important role in
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Speaker 1: their personal life and to h enlist and so that's
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Speaker 1: what my guest does. He's an incredible person. Let me
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Speaker 1: give you some of his credits and we're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: and uh, he's gonna expose to me or tell me
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Speaker 1: some of his stories military stories, but more importantly what
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Speaker 1: he represents this world as a man, as an individual.
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Speaker 1: My dex guests is a strong advocate of the military.
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Speaker 1: He's also a master ice carver. You know, we gotta
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Speaker 1: talk about that pastry shift. Everybody know I'm gonna winning baker,
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Speaker 1: So you know, we gotta talk about that sugar sculpture.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, but we don't know
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Speaker 1: about We're gonna find out about what sugar sculpturing is.
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Speaker 1: Along with other specialties, he has known worldwide for his
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Speaker 1: advocacy for the military service and suicide prevention, in which
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Speaker 1: he does two thousand, two hundred and twenty two push
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Speaker 1: ups a day except Saturday and Sunday. That's probably a
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Speaker 1: year I probably do. I probably have done two thousand,
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Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty two push up probably last ten years,
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Speaker 1: maybe combine to promote healthy lifestyle living around the world.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to my main conversation, my friend. Because when
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Speaker 1: you got twenty four by sels. You call him my friend,
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Speaker 1: Chef rush. Come on, my, this is this thing. Man.
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Speaker 1: If you do a two thousand push, you know your
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Speaker 1: your child like you know, you'd be living more bold
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Speaker 1: on what's going on? What's going because that's because anybody
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Speaker 1: you talk to, that's what I'm doing. Everybody you talk
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Speaker 1: to is humble by you. Okay, there's nobody at that.
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Speaker 1: How can you be at the Mr Olympia contest? Stay
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Speaker 1: humbled by you? Think? You don't just get down there,
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Speaker 1: just do what I do. I actually just left me
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Speaker 1: with the Olympia. No one know to do. Put a
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Speaker 1: couple of females here. But the guys is that we're okay.
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Speaker 1: We're okay. We we we got your brother, we got
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Speaker 1: your brother. I followed your story. I've seen your TV.
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Speaker 1: I love your your voice. Here, you have a brilliant smile.
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Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about your background. Um, no
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Speaker 1: story short. I'm from the hospitality State, Mississippi, columb of Mississippi.
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Speaker 1: I'm a country boy. I'm a mama's boy. Um. When
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Speaker 1: I could crawled, my dad told me the word put
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Speaker 1: the boys to work and put the girls in school.
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Speaker 1: So I feel Luckily, I kept my work ethics which
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Speaker 1: they would never go away, which I'm extremely appreciative of.
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Speaker 1: UH started the military very athletic, you know, scholarships from art, football, track.
19:17
Speaker 1: I had a chance for the Olympics in a hundred
19:20
Speaker 1: meter dash. Chose the military route. UH served my country
19:25
Speaker 1: of course, builtually did the twenty four years in the
19:28
Speaker 1: military almost and he crazy duration. During my twenty years
19:37
Speaker 1: in the military, the most humbling, most successful, most rewarding,
19:41
Speaker 1: you know how to say. It was the best of times,
19:43
Speaker 1: the worst of times. But I've never traded for anything.
19:46
Speaker 1: Now now that I shared my experience, and I didn't.
19:50
Speaker 1: I never enlisted in the military. I was only a
19:53
Speaker 1: person who was brought on to understand a brand, marketing
19:57
Speaker 1: brand and and see and tell peop about the value
20:01
Speaker 1: of the of having a role in the military. The
20:04
Speaker 1: branch I was talking about, what's the Air National Guard?
20:06
Speaker 1: Your branch was the army? Correct? Okay? Cool? Now, now
20:11
Speaker 1: you said you opted to go into the military. What
20:13
Speaker 1: attracted you to the military, Because that's that's a job,
20:16
Speaker 1: that's that's a that's an opportunity. A lot of people,
20:19
Speaker 1: there's a lot of negative things people say about the military.
20:21
Speaker 1: But because they don't really do their research, they don't
20:24
Speaker 1: really see the opportunities that are available to you, not
20:27
Speaker 1: only from an educational format, but you can it's kind
20:29
Speaker 1: of like only job training as well, and also can
20:32
Speaker 1: pay for your education later on. These are things I learned.
20:35
Speaker 1: Some of the things I knew going in, but was
20:37
Speaker 1: reinforced when you do more your research. Talked to us
20:40
Speaker 1: about that a little bit, sir, And you know, it's
20:42
Speaker 1: it's always a spigma with the military, just like what
20:45
Speaker 1: my ever to see about the things I do with
20:47
Speaker 1: my two balls and two hundred and twenty two push ups.
20:49
Speaker 1: So I have to kind of break it down to
20:52
Speaker 1: explain the people and uh and enlightened them so to speak,
20:57
Speaker 1: the military, like you just said. And by the way,
20:59
Speaker 1: thank you for your service. Even though you den serve
21:01
Speaker 1: you you're you served tremendously through the military, and hundreds
21:05
Speaker 1: of thousands of people that's in the military, that's that appreciated,
21:08
Speaker 1: like myself. UM, that their opportunities, that's that's undeniable course
21:13
Speaker 1: of foundation, leadership, mentoring, UH, that intestinal fortitude, financial course,
21:21
Speaker 1: UH education. I tell people, even if you don't want
21:24
Speaker 1: to join the military long term, which nine times out
21:28
Speaker 1: of ten people say, I'm just after being convinced that okay,
21:31
Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and pay the bills and
21:33
Speaker 1: and give some education. H They signed them for two
21:37
Speaker 1: or three years and wind up doing thirties. You know.
21:39
Speaker 1: It's like I, I, you're here every time. I only
21:42
Speaker 1: started off for a few years and and then I
21:45
Speaker 1: love the military and I just carry it on. Is
21:48
Speaker 1: so much more you can gain from it, um And
21:52
Speaker 1: it's all perspectives. I mean, military has so many opportunities
21:56
Speaker 1: that people don't dig deep inside to see everything that
22:00
Speaker 1: they have. I mean, I mean not only hundreds of
22:03
Speaker 1: thousands of opportunities like myself, even me deciding to be
22:07
Speaker 1: in the food service star now, I said, hey, this
22:10
Speaker 1: is what I wanted to do. Even even though people
22:14
Speaker 1: were like someone, you're a big guy, you could do anything.
22:16
Speaker 1: If you want to do the athletic, you can do X,
22:19
Speaker 1: Y and Z. But I had a passion. You know.
22:23
Speaker 1: It was from my mother, from being raised, you know,
22:25
Speaker 1: and it was my comfort. It brought me back to
22:28
Speaker 1: that part where I failed at peace the most so myself.
22:33
Speaker 1: I capitalized all of my peace and off of what
22:36
Speaker 1: I want to do and make it worth will and uh,
22:40
Speaker 1: I said to myself. You know, twenty plus years ago,
22:42
Speaker 1: I said, I'm going to do something with this platform.
22:46
Speaker 1: And that was at a time where there was absolutely
22:49
Speaker 1: nothing you could do with that platform. So that's how
22:52
Speaker 1: things work. And that's why I go out to different
22:54
Speaker 1: places all over the world, and I I say that
22:57
Speaker 1: I preached that especially to the military, to the younger,
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Speaker 1: the older, to the ones who are getting now staying
23:03
Speaker 1: in uh, civilians trying to transition, so many different so
23:07
Speaker 1: many different things. I mean, it's I could talk all
23:09
Speaker 1: day night about this, right and as you can. I
23:12
Speaker 1: because of the fact that my my younger brother, he's uh,
23:14
Speaker 1: he was in the military. Guy I was an X
23:17
Speaker 1: ray tech and now he has four Barbara and Beauti
23:20
Speaker 1: Stalons in the Washington, D c. Area. I have another
23:24
Speaker 1: nephew who has a very popular Big six barbecue in Houston, Texas,
23:29
Speaker 1: and every he visits, he comes to the lane his
23:31
Speaker 1: little he says, guys he served, they always hook up
23:35
Speaker 1: in Atlanta meet all the time. So it's that family,
23:37
Speaker 1: the camaraderie that he has, not his high school comarades, comrades,
23:42
Speaker 1: it's the people who had in the military. There's a
23:43
Speaker 1: family to him that he comes to to Atlanta, because
23:46
Speaker 1: it always stays with me when he comes into town.
23:48
Speaker 1: So those are just two examples and my my personal
23:51
Speaker 1: my personal life that I've tied myself to. And I
23:54
Speaker 1: say that hundred and four percent, that recruitment number for
23:57
Speaker 1: their National Guard. That's a prideful number when I say that,
24:00
Speaker 1: because that means that I gave what I could. I
24:03
Speaker 1: gave the talents that that they recognized that I had,
24:06
Speaker 1: and I gave one. And so when you say you're
24:09
Speaker 1: an advocate, know there are a lot of people who
24:10
Speaker 1: think like you, respect what you're doing and keep doing
24:14
Speaker 1: what you're doing all two hundred and Twitter two. Now,
24:17
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you know two thousand, two hundred
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24:21
Speaker 1: thousand that you know I can't get it. I could probably,
24:25
Speaker 1: I could probably do that in the whole football game,
24:27
Speaker 1: but I gotta take breaks, halftime breaks, two minute warnings.
24:33
Speaker 1: Let's talk about your skill, man a self. Now, let's
24:36
Speaker 1: because there was a lot of skills that you have here, sir. Okay,
24:39
Speaker 1: I'm talking to chef for us very talented, uh young
24:43
Speaker 1: man I've called young man who's younger than me. Who's uh,
24:46
Speaker 1: let's talk about sculpturing ice. Okay, usual when I see that,
24:49
Speaker 1: I see somebody with a chainsaw going at it. What
24:52
Speaker 1: level of sculpturing do you involve yourself with? Well, I
24:57
Speaker 1: just said it with my fists and then whatever I wanted.
25:00
Speaker 1: You know, everybody, just everybody's doing you believe it. If
25:05
Speaker 1: they believe you, now you can do a whole You
25:10
Speaker 1: can do a whole moment on this. Okay, I've been
25:15
Speaker 1: doing I've been doing ice. I see one of my
25:17
Speaker 1: hobby from oh my god, years and years ago that
25:20
Speaker 1: I knew nothing about that I count said that I did,
25:23
Speaker 1: and and I was giving an opportunity and uh that's
25:26
Speaker 1: when it was born. But I do mess ice carver.
25:30
Speaker 1: I carved thousands of pieces of ice or help h
25:36
Speaker 1: even that much more people train them on doing ice
25:39
Speaker 1: and uh from um from Alaska competitions to Europe competitions
25:45
Speaker 1: and ice carving to just general competitions anything if I
25:49
Speaker 1: think of from George Washington crossing the Delaware to you know,
25:53
Speaker 1: dragons to just it was just I just loved the
25:58
Speaker 1: I love the set it to the ice scoping where
26:01
Speaker 1: you can turn a block of ice into something that's
26:04
Speaker 1: magnificent that people don't get to see every day. Believe me,
26:08
Speaker 1: I want you to realize that this is a home
26:10
Speaker 1: for you, for your brand. Believe me. Uh, just just
26:13
Speaker 1: just a conversation, um, that I'm having with you is
26:16
Speaker 1: like if you were sitting in my house and we
26:18
Speaker 1: just with a restaurant. Just you. You You educated me.
26:21
Speaker 1: Hopefully you've educated my listeners and people watch the show,
26:25
Speaker 1: your podcast or Facebook. You're You're a blessing. Don't change.
26:30
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that you won't change, first of all,
26:33
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you, don't change. Keep following that first start.
26:36
Speaker 1: Keep being an advocate for change, Keep being somebody that
26:39
Speaker 1: I can't be, be in places I can't be, and
26:43
Speaker 1: we're both work together to change the world. Okay, chef,
26:47
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Speaker 1: reaching your goal. Success is not easy. If it were,
29:00
Speaker 1: then everybody will be wealthy and partying in Las Vegas.
29:03
Speaker 1: I go to Las Vegas. I have a good time,
29:05
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29:07
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29:10
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas on New Year's Eve. If you try
29:13
Speaker 1: to walk around real quick, it's crazy down there. You
29:17
Speaker 1: need to make personal sacrifices if you want to be successful.
29:19
Speaker 1: I've learned that I make personal I think about the
29:22
Speaker 1: sacrifice that I may that it could be. It could
29:24
Speaker 1: be like spending time away from your family, um, spending
29:27
Speaker 1: time with from the children, relocating. Those are sacrifices. That
29:30
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't understand that they have to
29:33
Speaker 1: make sometimes in order to achieve your dreams. Hey, I
29:36
Speaker 1: lived originally from Houston, Texas. I live in New York
29:39
Speaker 1: for two years, then I moved to l A, living
29:42
Speaker 1: in the l A for fifteen years, and then moved
29:44
Speaker 1: back to New York, lived there for two years and
29:46
Speaker 1: eventually settled into Atlanta, Georgia. Now excuse me. Then I
29:51
Speaker 1: lived in Chicago four years while I was living in Atlanta, Georgia.
29:54
Speaker 1: So those are the sacrifices that I've made physically that
29:58
Speaker 1: I didn't want to, but in order to fulfill my
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Speaker 1: dreams and my expectations, I had to make to be
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Speaker 1: where I'm am today. And I guess what, I think
30:06
Speaker 1: I'll be moving again to New York because some deals
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Speaker 1: and I'm dealing so on the l A. I'll be
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Speaker 1: in l A this week to talk about some stuff.
30:13
Speaker 1: So you know, again, there's are sacrifices that we all
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Speaker 1: have to make, and we all have to say I'm
30:18
Speaker 1: publicly and other people to understand that that that you
30:21
Speaker 1: have to do them too. If you don't tell them that,
30:22
Speaker 1: then they think that life is easy. My next guest
30:25
Speaker 1: is I call her the she's a publicist. She's a publicist.
30:29
Speaker 1: You know, she's kind of like a ninja of publicists,
30:32
Speaker 1: because I don't care. I could be standing there on
30:34
Speaker 1: the red car and she walked here where you come from? Jesus,
30:39
Speaker 1: she always was speakable. I've never seen her walk forwardly
30:42
Speaker 1: towards Even if she walked towards me, I probably didn't
30:45
Speaker 1: see her and didn't recognize that. She got upon and
30:47
Speaker 1: said hello. She's just that that nice and that you know,
30:50
Speaker 1: she's she knows how to be around celebrities and not
30:53
Speaker 1: be seen and that which is really key to a
30:56
Speaker 1: really good publicist. What is the publicist? What's the purpose
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Speaker 1: of publicists? My next guest will be able to answer
31:02
Speaker 1: these questions and many more. This week, she's being honored
31:06
Speaker 1: at the Living Levings Foundation Show and Darner which I
31:09
Speaker 1: will be attending, which I will be taking myself. He's
31:11
Speaker 1: with her on the red carpet in Los Angeles this week.
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Speaker 1: She has an award winning entertainment publicist with over twenty
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Speaker 1: five years of experience. She's also the senior vice person
31:21
Speaker 1: of W and W public Relations, which has been which
31:24
Speaker 1: has offices in New Jersey and Los Angeles. She represents artists, athletes,
31:29
Speaker 1: including Charlie Wilson. We know Charlie Wilson, Come on now,
31:33
Speaker 1: Bobby Brown, We know Bobby Brown, Come on now, Chris
31:36
Speaker 1: Paul CP three, You know CP three, pad La Belle,
31:39
Speaker 1: come on now. Sweepy Tator Patty Bell, that's what you know.
31:41
Speaker 1: She's Sweet Petator, Patill, Peach, Cobblum, Pattbill Now and has
31:45
Speaker 1: worked with world renowned talent including My boy Rusher, Holly Robinson,
31:50
Speaker 1: Pete who are just attended her charity foundation on with
31:53
Speaker 1: incredible husband Rodney Tupac, who I considered the greatest rapper
31:58
Speaker 1: of all time. The question me on that, but I'm sorry,
32:01
Speaker 1: stop sexy. You can do that party of music, you
32:06
Speaker 1: can do that, you know, politically challenging music. He could
32:10
Speaker 1: do that. That's what Tupac do. Tupac gave it all
32:14
Speaker 1: and plus you remember these lyrics. That's what I love it.
32:16
Speaker 1: But Prince, come on now, how many babies in the world?
32:20
Speaker 1: This man and Brody please welcome to my the main conversation,
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Speaker 1: my girl Karen Lee. Thank you for having me, Chell
32:30
Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. Thank you, good morning, well, good
32:33
Speaker 1: morning here, and thank this boy talking about everybody, but
32:38
Speaker 1: you don't telling the truth. I'm telling the absolute truth
32:40
Speaker 1: about the people you that you have represented and you
32:44
Speaker 1: currently represent before we get started. Congratulations on being honored
32:49
Speaker 1: at the Living Legends Foundation dinner. Thank you so much.
32:54
Speaker 1: I appreciate that um and being honored with the others
32:58
Speaker 1: ten people being honored, and being with nine other people
33:01
Speaker 1: who I have a tremendous amount of respect for and
33:04
Speaker 1: who have all worked together to jointly mature the artists
33:08
Speaker 1: we worked with move forward in their koreas as an
33:10
Speaker 1: honor as well. Absolutely, I know my man Frank Ski,
33:13
Speaker 1: he's out of Atlanta, He's being honored. Hyman childs my
33:18
Speaker 1: man out of out of the Dallas market, one of
33:21
Speaker 1: the first market radio station to gage Steve Harvey syndication,
33:25
Speaker 1: and the syndication changed. Hyman Child's being honored. My man
33:28
Speaker 1: Steve Hegwood. And I tell you Steve Hegwood taught me
33:30
Speaker 1: radio from a standpoint of how to deal with These
33:33
Speaker 1: are the people being honored with Karen On at the
33:36
Speaker 1: Living Legends Foundation and Steve Heckwood. In two thousand when
33:40
Speaker 1: I got the first contract deal with with Steve Harvey
33:43
Speaker 1: for Radio one, Steve Heckwood showed me how to do radio.
33:46
Speaker 1: And it was after that Phil Thorn, my man out
33:50
Speaker 1: of Nashville, cheat of coats, be your own brand. Uh,
33:54
Speaker 1: it's just my boy sitting the middle. I came boy
33:57
Speaker 1: Sittlor Miller heard this interview and I didn't mention his name.
33:59
Speaker 1: He beat me up. Oh yeah, Deanna Williams some some
34:06
Speaker 1: some major thoughts that people don't know anything about, but
34:10
Speaker 1: that are very responsible success of artists. And that's the
34:15
Speaker 1: that's the I'm gonna tell you something about the Living
34:17
Speaker 1: Legends Foundation. Living Legends Foundation arnored me, uh several years ago,
34:22
Speaker 1: and and and so it was out of the blue,
34:25
Speaker 1: but they just called me. And and so you know,
34:28
Speaker 1: everybody knows my career has been a major portion of
34:30
Speaker 1: my career has been in the background, building Steve Harvey's
34:33
Speaker 1: brand and working with sponsors, working with advertising, high profile
34:38
Speaker 1: fortune companies. And when they called me and said, Rashaan,
34:42
Speaker 1: we wanted on you, it really took me back because
34:44
Speaker 1: it took me took me back because I didn't understand
34:46
Speaker 1: what they were talking about. And but that's what this
34:49
Speaker 1: show does. It awards people who really are the backbone
34:53
Speaker 1: of the industry. That keeps it moving forward. It keeps
34:55
Speaker 1: that they're they're not in front of the mic, they're
34:58
Speaker 1: not trying to see got interviews, but they're so key
35:02
Speaker 1: to move forward. When I see this list, when I
35:04
Speaker 1: see all these names, Sidney Miller, ain't a Williams, him
35:08
Speaker 1: and child, Frank Ski, Maurice White, my boy, I forgot
35:10
Speaker 1: his name. Oh, I gotta see him on Karen Lee,
35:13
Speaker 1: She the coach, Phil Thorn and Steve Hegwood and Debora Intate,
35:18
Speaker 1: the dedre uh Tate, Kate who was part of Flavory
35:23
Speaker 1: Union Records before Queen Queen Latifa is who she is today. Yeah,
35:30
Speaker 1: being honored on Friday, and I feel very honored to
35:32
Speaker 1: be a part of that group. Girl, you deserve to
35:36
Speaker 1: be a part of the group. But let's ask you
35:38
Speaker 1: some questions. I want my listeners to understand, Like, because
35:41
Speaker 1: a lot of people to get these by pr firms,
35:43
Speaker 1: you hear by public What exactly is a publicist? Karen?
35:46
Speaker 1: Please tell us what explain that you have to TWI
35:48
Speaker 1: years experience? What exactly is a publicist? You come into
35:53
Speaker 1: an artist and athlete a company, Um, if you start
35:57
Speaker 1: out with artists, My background is primarily in music and sports.
36:01
Speaker 1: You come in uh to meet with the artists, talk
36:05
Speaker 1: to them, Okay, what are your goals? What do you
36:08
Speaker 1: want to achieve professionally and personally, and you help them,
36:12
Speaker 1: together with their team, put together a plan that helps
36:16
Speaker 1: them meet their goal. And one of the primary things
36:19
Speaker 1: about their plan is the patience to know it's not
36:22
Speaker 1: gonna happen overnight. Well, that's very true. I know that
36:27
Speaker 1: because a lot of Also, let's gonna put a lot
36:30
Speaker 1: of people want to publicists but don't want to pay. Yeah,
36:33
Speaker 1: that's true, very true. Let's go and get that out there.
36:36
Speaker 1: They want that promotion, but they don't want to play
36:38
Speaker 1: the price for a really good one because they think
36:40
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of disrespect, I would say to
36:44
Speaker 1: for publicists and the actually what they accomplished on an
36:47
Speaker 1: ongoing basis correct or yes, because people think we'll shoot.
36:51
Speaker 1: All they gotta do is pick up the phone and
36:53
Speaker 1: make a couple of calls to somebody because everybody wants
36:55
Speaker 1: to talk to me and I'm missing I'm that They
36:58
Speaker 1: don't always understand the business, especially now the business has
37:02
Speaker 1: changed a lot. Social media can be your friend or
37:05
Speaker 1: your enemy, and you make that decision. A publicist can
37:09
Speaker 1: help work with your management team, your agents. Okay, we're
37:13
Speaker 1: going out on tour. What do we want to do
37:15
Speaker 1: on that tour? Wouldn't want to leave in that community.
37:18
Speaker 1: We don't want to just go in, do a show,
37:21
Speaker 1: say hey, thank you, and walk away. You can't do that.
37:24
Speaker 1: People nowadays want to know a bit more about the
37:27
Speaker 1: people they spend their money to see, and you try
37:30
Speaker 1: to help develop the talent in order to make their
37:34
Speaker 1: career be have some longevity to it and not just
37:37
Speaker 1: be a flesh in Japan or one album hit. Well,
37:41
Speaker 1: you know, also you're paying for, especially an individual like
37:44
Speaker 1: you who's been in the business twenty five years, you're
37:47
Speaker 1: paying for your relationships. And relationships are very important because
37:52
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this, when I was managing Steve Harvey,
37:55
Speaker 1: my relationships that I had with the media were very important.
37:59
Speaker 1: I can get in views, I could kill interviews, I
38:02
Speaker 1: could do I can move interviews around. I can be
38:05
Speaker 1: able to say, hey, can we can we delay this
38:07
Speaker 1: because I need to get this done first, and I
38:10
Speaker 1: could actually talk to them. So they're paying for that
38:12
Speaker 1: as well, and that's very important. Correct, Oh no, it's
38:16
Speaker 1: extremely important. Because you, you and a publicist and journalists
38:21
Speaker 1: have to have some trust in each other. You can't
38:24
Speaker 1: panic when there's something going on with your client that's
38:28
Speaker 1: not necessarily the most positive thing in the world. The
38:31
Speaker 1: relationship you have with the journalists is going to determine
38:35
Speaker 1: how hardcore that interview is going to be. You know,
38:38
Speaker 1: it's really interesting you said that because the game has
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39:36
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39:43
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Speaker 1: is that they can trust you because there's going to
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Speaker 1: come a time, at some point in time in their
39:51
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Speaker 1: They have to be able to trust that you won't
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40:19
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40:33
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40:35
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40:38
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40:56
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to the show, ron Rico late oh man studio. Man, Man,
43:58
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Speaker 1: It means you're a small business person. That's true. And
44:10
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44:16
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44:19
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44:22
Speaker 1: brand and you have the statement, how's the effect of
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Speaker 1: social media had? You know, because you started before social man,
44:28
Speaker 1: long before it. Uh you know, I was reluctant. I
44:31
Speaker 1: fought toothing now. I mean when I was doing uh,
44:34
Speaker 1: let's stay together, man, you gotta get it. But I
44:38
Speaker 1: ain't doing nothing. I came here. I'm gonna act, That's
44:40
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna
44:42
Speaker 1: share with my family and uh man, when people was
44:45
Speaker 1: opening up fake accounts and I was laughing about it
44:47
Speaker 1: or whatever, and the ND this one individual started to
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45:11
Speaker 1: the things, you know, I'm trying to get better at
45:13
Speaker 1: it because it is a necessary I don't wanna call
45:16
Speaker 1: it evil, but it's definitely one of those things that
45:18
Speaker 1: you have to be on top of your game and
45:20
Speaker 1: the cross social media, but especially today because sometimes it
45:23
Speaker 1: can determine jobs. It breaks my heart, but yes, you know,
45:26
Speaker 1: they're looking at your funds, they're looking at your your feed,
45:29
Speaker 1: and they kind of they're seeing what type of reach
45:31
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45:33
Speaker 1: reached than you. That's that that that's just so true.
45:38
Speaker 1: And that's so that doesn't necessarily mean that they have
45:40
Speaker 1: the working skills, all the chops, but because engagement um
45:46
Speaker 1: followers mean something part your eyeballs and has never been
45:49
Speaker 1: proven that is the case, because otherwise a lot of
45:52
Speaker 1: these people, these amazing following basis will have platinum albums
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Speaker 1: and want her to me in all the movies. But
45:59
Speaker 1: it does say something that people do resonate with your voice,
46:02
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Speaker 1: on as a businessman. You're working on that. More importantly,
46:08
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about something I felt miserably good,
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46:14
Speaker 1: you talk about that whenever we talked about having the
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Speaker 1: balance life, talk about being able to deal with being
46:20
Speaker 1: a celebrity. They are working actor and having a balanced life.
46:23
Speaker 1: You know, it's tough. I got married, I got two kids,
46:26
Speaker 1: I got a four year old and five year old. Um,
46:28
Speaker 1: you know part of why I actually uh and actually
46:31
Speaker 1: because of you. I remember when uh, when we first
46:34
Speaker 1: really started working again, you kind of too many your wing.
46:36
Speaker 1: I was amazed at the fact that you had a
46:38
Speaker 1: really nice place in l A. I loved it. You
46:41
Speaker 1: had two cards, you had your airport card, and you
46:43
Speaker 1: had this nice truck. And you see him and I
46:45
Speaker 1: take the airport. I just drive out to the airport
46:47
Speaker 1: on Fridays after the show, and then I shoot back
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Speaker 1: home Monday morning. I said, man, you can do that,
46:52
Speaker 1: I Sae, you can live in Houston and work in
46:54
Speaker 1: l As. I never get he said, ron Rico, you
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Speaker 1: when I could, it's gonna caught me a career back
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47:07
Speaker 1: And then what happened was, you know, the BT show
47:09
Speaker 1: I was doing, Let's Stay Together is shot here, and
47:11
Speaker 1: I literally was blessed to walk right out of that.
47:13
Speaker 1: In the survivrashy More it's it's shot here, and a
47:15
Speaker 1: few other gigs that I had here. So my family
47:17
Speaker 1: got really used to dad, you know, going to work
47:19
Speaker 1: and coming home and um. And so now I traveled
47:22
Speaker 1: a little bit more. It's been it's been adjustment. But listen,
47:24
Speaker 1: it's been many of days where I've gone to work
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47:29
Speaker 1: that evening off and flew home, really booked a flight right,
47:32
Speaker 1: went straight from work to the airport, flew home later
47:35
Speaker 1: for one day. I'm back, you know, back at the
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47:39
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47:41
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47:45
Speaker 1: it's what you gotta do. So I try to keep
47:47
Speaker 1: a balance and been fortunately to do so. It's really
47:50
Speaker 1: important because of the fact that what's that shutdown time?
47:53
Speaker 1: Because if you throw to the brand and we just entertainment,
47:57
Speaker 1: it can be fracturing. You know. We we think we
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48:03
Speaker 1: pull the carpet on it. That's why that balances. And boy,
48:08
Speaker 1: I was I was looking at Jobio and so it
48:10
Speaker 1: was talking about directing. Yes, okay, and that's I read
48:13
Speaker 1: that now. Just my eyes went, okay, I gotta talk
48:15
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48:18
Speaker 1: don't you know if has kept I've been one of
48:20
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48:22
Speaker 1: the second film I did was Glory Uh with Denzel
48:26
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48:28
Speaker 1: Morgan Freeman starts, you know, the Stelly cast. But I
48:31
Speaker 1: can honestly say I was interested in directing back then.
48:33
Speaker 1: I remember coming back and comes to my friends and man,
48:35
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48:37
Speaker 1: contests man the Fisher Price. You know Fisher prices, but
48:41
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48:44
Speaker 1: basically I was like, this is what we're gonna do,
48:45
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48:47
Speaker 1: had a homebo ain't Joe and harwe ain't Leon. I said, John,
48:49
Speaker 1: put you in this shopping cart, man, and we're gonna
48:51
Speaker 1: do a dolly shot and we're just gonna roll down
48:53
Speaker 1: the sidewalk. It's like eleven or two years old, so
48:56
Speaker 1: it's been in my blood. One of the direct man
48:58
Speaker 1: every show minus Sisters, said Stir. He didn't really start
49:01
Speaker 1: to like bets Let's stay together. I started biting at
49:04
Speaker 1: the bit man, trying to get them to let me direct.
49:06
Speaker 1: It didn't work out. Begging on Survivors and Wars. You know,
49:09
Speaker 1: we're gonna let you do. You know, fifth season, fifth season.
49:12
Speaker 1: I didn't get a fifth season, so I can't get
49:13
Speaker 1: a chance to direct there. But I was fortunate to
49:15
Speaker 1: direct the short film Um. Actually one of my coach
49:18
Speaker 1: stars Jessie Usher, another good brother, Kelling the King. They
49:22
Speaker 1: formed the production company got hold of a really really
49:24
Speaker 1: nice short film and I literally had told I said, listen,
49:28
Speaker 1: I realized that, you know, you got put stuff out
49:30
Speaker 1: in the universe. And when that opportunity come now, you know.
49:33
Speaker 1: And I had said no to a few other things,
49:35
Speaker 1: but I said to myself, I said, God, if I'm
49:37
Speaker 1: giving the opportunity to direct, I don't care what it is,
49:40
Speaker 1: I'm saying yes, sight unseen. And I did. When they
49:42
Speaker 1: called me if, I was like, yea, I ain't read
49:44
Speaker 1: the script. I was just like, I'm gonna do it.
49:46
Speaker 1: And it was a heavy piece. It was a dramatic piece,
49:48
Speaker 1: but it confirmed everything in me, like directing is that's
49:52
Speaker 1: what I want to do. Now let's go back to
49:54
Speaker 1: you and I let um, you know, um young talent.
50:01
Speaker 1: The guy comes in, Yeah, still young and talent when
50:06
Speaker 1: that resume says otherwise, and we cast you as a
50:12
Speaker 1: love interest for one of the twins Tea in Tomorrow,
50:15
Speaker 1: and and it was just it was like really big opportunity,
50:20
Speaker 1: but there was no guarantees and you just was to me,
50:23
Speaker 1: was just on on this huge learning curve. I just
50:26
Speaker 1: wanted to soak up so much information tell us about
50:29
Speaker 1: that that time frame and leading up to where you're
50:32
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50:33
Speaker 1: of water, man, I think I had blown a audition
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50:41
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50:42
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50:46
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50:50
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50:53
Speaker 1: you know, probably had you can have anywhere from ten
50:56
Speaker 1: to fifteen people, writers, directors and lots of friend Johnson
50:59
Speaker 1: was right in there, so it was it was overwhelming,
51:02
Speaker 1: and I did I kind of folded under pressure. So
51:05
Speaker 1: my sister sister came around. I remember saying, listen, if
51:08
Speaker 1: I get this opportunity again, I'm knocking out the park
51:11
Speaker 1: and uh it Rashan. He made it sound real simple,
51:13
Speaker 1: like I came in audition, I got cast. N they
51:16
Speaker 1: made your boy jump through the hoops. I probably had
51:19
Speaker 1: four auditions before I got to read with tire and um,
51:23
Speaker 1: you know, I got cast, and uh I think even
51:25
Speaker 1: the first day it was it was an adjustment because
51:29
Speaker 1: I you know, four camera sitcom is a different beat.
51:31
Speaker 1: You know, I had started off doing movies in Georgia.
51:34
Speaker 1: So all those things like they just they didn't compare
51:37
Speaker 1: like what you have to know, the beats, the energy,
51:40
Speaker 1: the timing, all of that was just new to me.
51:42
Speaker 1: And and I did. I hung around a lot. They
51:45
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51:49
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51:53
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51:55
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51:57
Speaker 1: from him. But it took me a minute to find
51:59
Speaker 1: like what's my funny gonna be? And and you helped
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52:06
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52:09
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52:12
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52:16
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52:19
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52:21
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52:23
Speaker 1: And one of the things I always say to Rashaan
52:26
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52:28
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52:31
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52:33
Speaker 1: I was really just kind of emulating Dion a lot
52:36
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52:39
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52:41
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52:43
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52:46
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52:48
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52:59
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53:29
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53:31
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