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Dondre' Whitfield, Felicia D. Henderson, Omar Epps & Anthony Thurston · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: is the principal chairman the CEO of dream Flights International.
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  Speaker 1: Dream Flights is a private jet service that utilizes a
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  Speaker 1: network of four thousand pre qualified aircraft adhering to safety
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  Speaker 1: standards higher than those of the f a A Requirements
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  Speaker 1: and chart. The aircraft is out the thirty thousand airports worldwide.
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, Anthony Thurston. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Are you doing Anthony, I'm blass, Thanks for asking, good man.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Happy to have you on my show, Mighty Making Conversations.
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  Speaker 1: You know, So tell me, Anthony, where are you based
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: out of We're based out of Houston, Texas, my hometown.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, and I've never used your service? Come on now,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: we got to change that. Yeah, we have to do
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: something about that, because look, look, before we get started
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: explaining everybody what exactly your company does, well, we're over spoke.
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  Speaker 1: Aviation Company again, as she stayed in the opening. We
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: charter aircraft out of thirty thousand airports worldwide using a
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: network of four thousand airport aircraft. Excuse me that here
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  Speaker 1: the safety inquirements as to expandard. We offer ground transportation
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  Speaker 1: in seventy countries as well as executive protection upon the quest.
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  Speaker 1: There are two sides of the business who want us
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  Speaker 1: on demand charter any others plus card where you buy
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  Speaker 1: uh bull hours of flight time, traffication intuit included. Now, okay,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: there's a couple of things you do out there. Now,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you had four thousands pre qualified aircraft. How are your
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: aircraft qualified? What? What's what's the what's what are the
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: standards because you said they're higher than the f A. Yeah,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: they are wild and approved, so they have different res
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: regulations if you will, and certifications that they found them
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: they are safe aircraft. To put that in context, they're
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: about well about twenty tho aircraft out there available for
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: charter are out there period. There's probably about fourteen thousand
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  Speaker 1: and twelve thousand of those that are available to charter
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: to the public and the four thousand that we use
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: or even more exclusive. And they're the same aircraft that
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the big box operators use such as net ten Buch Tests, etcetera,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that they use a supplemental lift. Now is your business
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: for the lifestyle of the rich and famous. Not enough
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  Speaker 1: to shipway, it's more of it's kind of a revolution
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  Speaker 1: if you will star to innovation program that we have
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  Speaker 1: our initiative. You know, we believing in donating ten percent
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: of on that profit back into charities, foundations and community
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  Speaker 1: programs of the purchaser's choice. So it truly is a
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  Speaker 1: lifestyle or looking to the life life minded individenens that
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: are looking to make a difference. Now, the thing I
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: liked about I enjoy about private air travel is that security.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Just walk right on that planet to do the path down?
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Do have to get get the airport two hours before?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: And when you get that two hours before, you still
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: frustrated that line that's standing in front of you. Those
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: are some of the what are some of the perks
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Because I want to get people to understand the basics
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: because I got you for two breaks. I want to
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: take my time. I really want to we really expose
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: people to your business and the different lanes of opportunity
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  Speaker 1: because when people that's why I opened up and say
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: that line about lifestyle and rich your famous, because I
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: know it's really not about that nowadays, you know, it's
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: really the pricing is really coming down to just everyday
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: travel depends on how you want to travel. So when
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I when I when I look at when I look
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: at a business like yours and watching it grow, how
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: long have you been in business? Been in business for
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: nineteen years. We started as Dream Flights Luxury Travel. We
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: were a jet helicopter company with basically so perfectly just
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: getting paid but at a but guide moment, if you will,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: and he changed the direction and transforming the company into
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: a private aviation company. What's social innovation at its core?
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  Speaker 1: So with that being said, what is what is? What
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: are you selling to your customers? What are you saying? Uh,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: you know because some people are in private Ada are
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: taking advantage of corporate trip there. You know they were
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: because you have WiFi on these planes nowadays, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times you can put four or five lawyers or
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: four or five executives on the plane. They can do
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  Speaker 1: a business meeting all the way till they touched down,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and it's totally private because unlike when you commercial, when
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: you're talking to everybody can hear your conversation. So what
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: do you see the growing trend in your business right now? Well,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: our value proposition. Of course, you're saving time and time
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  Speaker 1: and saving money. You know a lot of most people say,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: how you know how important their time is, but I
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: don't think we are as a whole really realize how
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: important that is. Let's save Let's say you have a
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: whatever you're your revenue goal is for the year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and if you want, if you divide that by two
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: thousand and eight, that'll give you your hourly rate. So
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to speak of the value of your time. You know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: most people don't think in that context and do that
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: cost benup in analysis if you will. So, yes, you
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you are truly saving time and you're being more efficient
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and uh and therefore more productive. So what I'm talking
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I'm on the phone. He's on the phone. He's a
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  Speaker 1: principal chairman, the CEO of dream Flights International. I'm ru
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. I want to use your services. How does
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  Speaker 1: that happen in the private actraft? In the private actor,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna because you have different lengths, Because I want
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: to get to the security, which I think is really interesting,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and I want to get to the show for the
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  Speaker 1: private cost service. Let's talk about the private aircraft aircraft traffic. Okay,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: So on the on demand where you can either call
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  Speaker 1: into our toll free line or go through our website
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  Speaker 1: portfolio porthole, excuse me, And and that's where you just
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  Speaker 1: get the air side of it. And then all of
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  Speaker 1: your ground transportation, your premium catoring and whatnot is all
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  Speaker 1: ale cart now with our plus cards, our check card
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  Speaker 1: if you will, that's where you're buying bull hours of
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  Speaker 1: flight time, bulk hours and ground transportation. All your taxes
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  Speaker 1: and fees and still search arges are included premium catering
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and ground transportation. So it's kind of like when you
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  Speaker 1: go to cost go only buying boat and you're saving
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  Speaker 1: money situation through our card. Now, what about catering? Is
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: catering included to absolutely promium cator and not just get
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: regular cator Most most of the competitors says the offer
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: catering and that's just the trips and shoulders and nuts
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  Speaker 1: and candy that's on the plane. Catering is the real deal.
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  Speaker 1: So on our last trip that we had the sall
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  Speaker 1: grass on that so you know, come come now see
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: that everybody that's all guys, not all of the country.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's a steakhouse. Because it explained to my listeners.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's from Houston, so he knows, I know,
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  Speaker 1: South Grass. South Grass is like it's a steak company's
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's like a middle ground States really good.
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  Speaker 1: But the roles are fantastic. And so if you cad
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  Speaker 1: and salt Grass on these planes, I'm about to look
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  Speaker 1: into you a little bit closer, my f because that show.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get that old delta, that's that's really cool. So
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: so so basically everybody knows the expenses on that format,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and so you can go there and you can pick
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: different type of planes that what is your most popular
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: plane that gets uh get used? I get, I guess
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: say rented, I guess service your in your life? Two
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: detailed to ask and no, no, that's a great question.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: But actually we're not an aircraft specific company. Where are
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  Speaker 1: a class specific company? I mean not by saying that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say, if you if you want to fly on
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a Falcon you know, I mean Superman class aircraft, you're
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: in Houston with our competitors, they're gonna find one that's
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  Speaker 1: in Houston. If there's not one to safe the nearest
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  Speaker 1: ones in Dallas, you have to reposition that aircraft to you,
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  Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to pay for the reposition costs.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Where with us being a class specific aircraft aircraft company,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: excuse me, then will find another superman it's in the area,
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  Speaker 1: save you the repositioning costs, and past that saving on
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  Speaker 1: to you. That's where our price points or even lower,
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  Speaker 1: So we can offer a greater value at the lower
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  Speaker 1: pros point because of just that one fact. That's true
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: because a lot of I gotta tell everybody, but I
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: want to I want to bring you on my show
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: because a lot of people they start talking about private
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: that they started talking about, you know, custom suits, they
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: think that's out of that price line. They start talking
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: about things, you know, private cost so they think that's
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  Speaker 1: how their price line. Now now you know aircraft, you
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  Speaker 1: know private aircraft, they really think that's how their price line.
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  Speaker 1: And I just want to let people know, if you
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  Speaker 1: do your research, it really isn't like you said, time
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  Speaker 1: is money. And if you if you're trying to get someplace,
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  Speaker 1: and you can do a family outing and a group
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: of friends y'all can just pull the money together and
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: uh and you can rent out this and then to
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: come get you to drop you off and it will
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  Speaker 1: pick you up and can be a round trip and
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  Speaker 1: it can be a really fun experience. If that's if
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  Speaker 1: you know, if that's if you want to do a
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  Speaker 1: bucket list a bucket list trip type thing. So I
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: just want to let everybody know, Anthony, that you know,
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  Speaker 1: stop thinking that you can't afford something. Just just do
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: your research and come to a company like yours, because
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: you guys are willing to work with people to educate
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: them so they can use your services. Correct Again, that's
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: kind of hard to explain over over the phone and
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: on the radio, but will be going happy to send
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  Speaker 1: you some information. You have another thing, well, first of all,
• 27:57
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  Speaker 1: and CEO of Dream Flights inter Nahville, I want to
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: thank you for taking the time to call my show.
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  Speaker 1: It's been wonderful, it's been an honor. I look forward
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  Speaker 1: to many more conversations holfully in the teaching and it
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Omar Epps, long brother,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I appreciate it really well. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: certain value system when I read about people, right, stories,
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• 32:22
  Speaker 1: growing up without a father, and unfortunately that's very um
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  Speaker 1: that's not nothing unusual, especially in the African American community.
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  Speaker 1: And why was it important to tell your story to
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  Speaker 1: us well for that exact reason what you just said
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  Speaker 1: is that we've we've normalized that, um, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned it in the book. Well, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to spark spark mind, you know. And so that's
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: why that that, that's why I mentioned that in the book,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: because I was a profound moment for me, well, to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: say the least. Now, on the phone with Omar Epps
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: his book from Fatherless to Fatherhood. There in the back
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: of the book, it was a verse that I want
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: to say that I felt was really important to say
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: doing this interview, and he reached like this, this is
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: from your book, Omar, to all those fathers who have
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: fallen off, you don't have to you don't have the
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: luxury of catching amnesia just because your relationship with the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: mother of your child didn't work. That woman is the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: mother of your child, period. Why would you even try
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to turn a kid against her. Plus, when it's all
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: said and done, neither of you wins, only your child
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: will lose. Wow. You know, yeah, I mean that's real, man.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: You know, I try to I try to, uh speak
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: on different scenarios, right, Like, you know, a lot of
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: things happen. Sometimes things don't happen in a traditional way. Uh.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: You know, you can have a child out of wedline.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: You could be married, the relationship dissolved. You might just
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: be bortrained girl, whatever the scenario is. At the end
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: of the day, you know, once you once to people
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: make a commitment to have a child, um, and they
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: have to put that child. They're making a lifelong commitment
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: to each other, regardless of what happens, you know, in
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: their love relationship, you know, in terms of intimacy, regardless
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: that dissolves, they still have a lifelong commitment you know,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: to this child and to each other. So you know,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: it's just trying to drop jews for the young brothers
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: to think about that before they make certain moves and
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: when they may those moons. To keep that in mind,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: because I get it. It's hard, you know. And I
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: even try to speak to um women in the book
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: in in some the same ways. You know, there's a
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: lot of emotional things can happen. There's a lot of
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: you know, this book is full of quote. I'm on
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the phone with all my apps in this book from
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Fatherless to Fatherhood. You can get that Bonds and Noble,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Amazon dot com, you know, and you should get this book.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: And uh, it's a. It's a because the problem I
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: always have with with books because you know, women buy books.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Women will buy books. Men, on the other hand, who
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: need to be reading this book. I don't think I
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: need to read that, and I would let's change that
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: because it's something you should read because of the fact
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: that it's a good it's good read for me. And
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I feel I'm a good father. But you know, I'm
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: like you. I'm in the business, so I know what
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: you're talking about. Sometimes I was living in New York.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I raised my daughter over the phone. I got
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: some I got some baby talk on my leave voice
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: messages that I'm gonna give it to her one day.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: And you're gonna probably make her cry when she was
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: just talking and leave messages on my She's never just know.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: I got my thirty of those when you hate daddy,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: my daddy, you know, all through it's like one through
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: one through five of her just leaving messages on my phone.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I was able to capture them and put them on CD.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them to him one day because I
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: know what you're saying is that you know, it's important
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: to try to be your father. More important, it's important
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: to try to be a father who's responsible to the
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: to the activity of giving your child the advice, the
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: guidance because there's so many things special with social media.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about, Alma. You know you
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: you're you're, you're, you're, you're superstar dude. You you know,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: you're celebrit recognizable talent. You on television all the time,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: your movies all the time, and so your children are
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: impacted by that, and so that means that you have
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: the guide them. Like you said, like you said, your
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: older daughter knew knew you want the doctor on the house.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: You're the kid they just over They're just looking at
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Danny TV, Daddy l TV, you know, so so it
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: really when you start breaking down your life, you have
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: to understand that the value of the way you're a
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: truck driver, work for ups, all your cook all of
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: it comes back to being a father who has time
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: for their child, right then father who makes time. And
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I think one of the you know, I know, for me, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest uh, one of the biggest things my mother
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  Speaker 1: instilled to me from a young age was a sense
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• 39:21
  Speaker 1: that's one of the biggest things we can instill in
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: our children is that they are worthy um. Because when
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: when the child grows up with that sense um, a
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: lot of the peer pressures and the environmental things, they're
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: less likely to partake in those things because they they
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: feel worth, They feel worthy, they feel love, that they
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: belong to a a familiar tribe that you know, that
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: they have a work end um. A lot of these
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: kids that go wayward, and it's a lot of different reasons,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: you know, but I'm just trying to go to the
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: root of it. A lot of these kids don't feel valued. No,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I feel worthy. They feel like, well, you know, it
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: don't matter if I ain't here tomorrow because don't nobody care,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: you know, and and and so you know again going
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: back to that active piece. You know, that's it's that's
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: the most important thing. It's deep, man, it's really deep.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I want to do one more quote from your book
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: far before we end this conversation about your book, From
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Fatherless to Fatherhood, written by all my help, the comic
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: comedic genius Chris Rock made a profound statement about fatherhood
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: doing one of his performances. He said, whenever our father
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: boast about taking care of his kids, people response should be,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to take care of your kids, right right.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I'll tell you, Omar. I've been reading
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: this book for I'm telling you, man, you're messing women. Man,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: you're messing women allmar. But if you look at that,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: you know it's it's just the truth. But we have
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: gone to so many generations of having fatherless households that
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: it's normalized. So now of it you have, you know,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: people who are stepping up to the their their fatherly duties.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: You know, they want that extra pat on the back.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: And let me and let me just say this too.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: You know, within the African American community, we have made
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: incredible strides to the issues of family and things of
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: that nature. But and a lot of times, you know,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: you hear people want to throw up certain statistics, and
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: it's that any other statistics are relative to whoever you're
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: poland one. But two, you know I'm in them treats,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: and and that that cycle of fatherlessness is still an
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: epidemic in our community. So we just gotta be real
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: about what's real. And um so that you know, even
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: though I say that in the book, you know, using
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: that that that Chris Rock joke, which I thought was
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: just great, you know, I understand at the same time
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: why you know a man would want that credit so
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: many generations. And so it's like, yeah, they're trying to
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: and they bring in so absolute those brothers as well,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: because you're breaking the cycle. With end of the day,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: it's about breaking the cycles. He's a writer, he's a producer, entrepreneur,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: he's been married to his wife over a decade and
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: he's dedicated father to his three children. Omar, thank you
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: for calling Money Making Conversations. Thank you, brother, it was
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• 46:56
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• 46:58
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• 47:01
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• 47:13
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• 47:19
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, all the networks. So when
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  Speaker 1: you when you look at your resume and your body
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  Speaker 1: of work, you know, and like I said, the reason
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  Speaker 1: I have you on the show because you are because
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  Speaker 1: made so many people wear and black people watch TV anyway,
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  Speaker 1: So as your role of spokesperson changed because used to
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  Speaker 1: your name, picture of you pops up, you know. Inside. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's different, isn't it? And you know, I just came back.
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  Speaker 1: down a Comic Con and San Diego, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: but it has changed and they're like, Okay, you have
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  Speaker 1: to get out there, you gotta go. But I'm a writer.
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  Speaker 1: the Absolutely it would be my pleasure. It's a pleasure
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