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Dr. Holly Carter Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next Guests is an amazing person. Been knowing her
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  Speaker 1: since my l A days way back in two thousands,
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  Speaker 1: and she's one of the premier management and production companies
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  Speaker 1: for family and faith inspired content. Check this out. Her
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  Speaker 1: current production slate is certainly impressive, with two shows on air,
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  Speaker 1: The Next Big Thing BT and Loving Listing v H one,
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  Speaker 1: two Lifetime movis Victoria Gotti, My Father's Daughter February, which
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  Speaker 1: was just this year, and The Clark's Sisters, which I
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  Speaker 1: interviewed and she says early Carter Keen I for must
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  Speaker 1: see TV program has even as seven major networks anteing up. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, Roshawn does not have one show on TV.
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  Speaker 1: They're clamoring for her abilities. Please welcome, good friend. Long time,
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  Speaker 1: been so long since I've talked to because she has
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  Speaker 1: one of the best laughs in Hollywood. Please walking to
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  Speaker 1: money making conversations producers extraordinary Holly Carter, Hi, Hey, big time?
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing? Big time? Okay, let's put the
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  Speaker 1: blast with the faith and all this. But I'm mentioning
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff. This has to be uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: here's I was. I was at NBC UNI and and
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned your name and they just gushed with what
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  Speaker 1: compliments about how professional you are, that you are a
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  Speaker 1: creative genius, that you are producer extraordinaire, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's just watching you grow your brand. Tell us about
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  Speaker 1: what is your brand? Ms Carter? Um, You know what,
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  Speaker 1: First of all, that's so awesome. It's awesome to know
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  Speaker 1: that you know, your reputation is speaking for you. That
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  Speaker 1: means a lot to me. Um. But um, you know
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  Speaker 1: my brand is redemptive, provocative, informative, entertaining and aspirational content.
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  Speaker 1: That's That's what I'm love. That's what represents my faith,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my way of life. Um, what I believe is?
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  Speaker 1: Now what that ask this question? Then, because you're ended
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  Speaker 1: with it, what do you believe in in terms of
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  Speaker 1: my faith? Well? You say, you say your aspiration, your
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  Speaker 1: faith and what you believe in. That that was a
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  Speaker 1: lead off into something else besides, is it is it
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  Speaker 1: all tied to faith? Is it believed in the storytelling
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  Speaker 1: that you want to tell or that the people you
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  Speaker 1: want to have a relationship with when you're producing these
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  Speaker 1: type of shows. What is that all tied to? I
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  Speaker 1: guess I apologize for that confusing question, but that's when
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  Speaker 1: I'm extending it beyond where you ended it, because it's
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  Speaker 1: all about relationships, correct, got it? Yeah, I believe in relationship. Said,
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  Speaker 1: you know that God allows us to create, cultivate, maintain, um,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, relationships are key and um, you know
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  Speaker 1: some relationships are seasonal reasonabal and then there's some for
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime. And you know, I thank God for the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom to know the difference in the three seasonal reasonable
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  Speaker 1: and and for a lifetime. There you go on point,
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  Speaker 1: just trying to educate my audience to understand how you
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  Speaker 1: are driving your concept because people approach me all the
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  Speaker 1: time with creative ideas. I can make a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money with this ra Sean, Okay, I got it. But
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  Speaker 1: what's the basis of it? What's what's the plan? Who?
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  Speaker 1: What talent has attached to this? And so one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I always enjoyed doing was Emerged Summit.
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  Speaker 1: Are you still doing Emerge summits? Oh? Yes, we're going
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  Speaker 1: into year eleven next year. Um. That you know that
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  Speaker 1: is an extension of my purpose in Hollywood. Merged the
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  Speaker 1: sacred and the secular bring opportunity and platforms to other
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  Speaker 1: believers who are creative. And you know and want to
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  Speaker 1: impact culture through entertainment and so Merge is a very
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  Speaker 1: very big part of what I do and what I
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  Speaker 1: represent and it will be a part of my legacy.
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  Speaker 1: Now if it started traveling now, maybe I used to
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  Speaker 1: always go to l A. And then I saw it
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  Speaker 1: on the East coast. Is it still based on the
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  Speaker 1: in l A. Or is it traveling from different to
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  Speaker 1: different cities. Well, we are one year on in l
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  Speaker 1: A for the three day event, and then the next
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  Speaker 1: year we travel um. You know, so we are you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a national event now, but each every other year
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  Speaker 1: we're in a different market. Okay, So what market was
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  Speaker 1: it in? This is the Merge summer we're talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Is Angeley put the complete weekend of education, empowerment and entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: I used to always attended in Los Angeles nows on
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  Speaker 1: the road, So what what market was it in the
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  Speaker 1: Merge summer? Well, this of the year that it toured
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  Speaker 1: and so we were at Essence in July. So we
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  Speaker 1: curated UM three major conversations UM in July at Essence Festival, Friday,
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  Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday. Okay, cool, So now will it be
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  Speaker 1: back in l A? Back in l a okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: three days three days. Uh. And so with that being said,
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  Speaker 1: when does it When do you start promoting that? Is
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  Speaker 1: it promoting at the top of the year. How do
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  Speaker 1: you do that? We will send out kind of a
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  Speaker 1: save the day by October uh this year for next year,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the last week in August next year. Okay, cool?
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  Speaker 1: Let me know so I can support you through my
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  Speaker 1: social media fan club members. I'd love to put that
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  Speaker 1: in my monthly newsletter and promote your brand from the
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  Speaker 1: Merged summit. Okay, I will certainly let you know. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for shan. I appreciate that. Okay, cool.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about what Let's talk about how did you
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  Speaker 1: come up with creative ideas? Let's talk about let me
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  Speaker 1: into your head of ms carter because your your platforms
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  Speaker 1: are our faith based. Uh. How do you how do you?
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  Speaker 1: How do you shit around and just think of an idea?
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  Speaker 1: Do you make a phone call? Do you do you
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  Speaker 1: have a staff that you pitched to? How does the
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  Speaker 1: evolution of creativity happen in your world? Um? You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a mixture of several things. Sometimes people bring me ideas,
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  Speaker 1: other times I curate them based on something that I
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  Speaker 1: want to do UM and then and then there are
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  Speaker 1: times when the team will generate an idea, so it
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  Speaker 1: definitely m varied, like to show that's on NBC, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sorry to show that's on d et calling Next six Things. UM.
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  Speaker 1: That idea was brought to me and I developed it.
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  Speaker 1: I brought in the team, we developed it, I sold it,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how it got on the air. It was
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  Speaker 1: kind of a germ of the idea and we ended
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  Speaker 1: up kind of refurbishing, kind of repackaging and redeveloping it
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  Speaker 1: to what it is now. The idea that's on v
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  Speaker 1: H one. It was just literally based on my relationship
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  Speaker 1: with one of the stars of the show. It was
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  Speaker 1: his continent, it was his business, and I thought this
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  Speaker 1: would really make a good television show. Let's let's do this.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how that happens. That's Love and Listings right, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's mother listening. There's some vich one and then we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the next big thing. This is on there's
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  Speaker 1: on BT and that the judges, Damon dash On their
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  Speaker 1: Tina Davis, and there's twelve up and coming R and
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  Speaker 1: B and hip hop artists. Through this. Basically, you say
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  Speaker 1: it's grueling development. So I'm assuming that you start with
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  Speaker 1: twelve and you end with one. That's how it works.
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  Speaker 1: On the next big things. Yeah, there's there's one winner
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  Speaker 1: that's crowned the next big things, and then after that,
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  Speaker 1: then after that you move on. So I'm assuming that
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  Speaker 1: in your office somewhere in Hollywood, they're just a there's
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  Speaker 1: just just giant pitch room. Correct. Mm hmmm. Yes, we
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  Speaker 1: have what's called of development development time, and during that
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  Speaker 1: development time we talked about new ideas, things that have
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  Speaker 1: been tip people bring up um ideas and and then
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  Speaker 1: we also you know, continue the development of current projects
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  Speaker 1: that are on our slates. Cool um talking to Holly Carter,
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  Speaker 1: an amazing TV producer, management manager of talent Um Relationships.
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  Speaker 1: That's the key when you keep hearing her talk about uh.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, she had a strong faith, but she
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  Speaker 1: understands the value relationship. We'll be back with more money
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  Speaker 1: making conversations with Holly Carter. Hi. This with Sean McDonald
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  Speaker 1: and you're listening to money making conversation. I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: a dear friend. Um, Hollywood. It's interesting about when you
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  Speaker 1: when you go on a journey of life, you know
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  Speaker 1: you have ups and downs, and you're trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: your figure out your path because sometimes you think your
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  Speaker 1: path hit in one direction. You think you have the
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  Speaker 1: relationship that's gonna carry you to the end, and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden threw a big curve. What happens when
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  Speaker 1: that curve is thrown you away? What happens when you
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  Speaker 1: didn't see it coming? How do you plan for that?
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  Speaker 1: How do you avoid that? How do you? And I say,
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  Speaker 1: what do you avoid that? Is by having multiple streams
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  Speaker 1: of income. So if somebody tells you they don't like
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  Speaker 1: the way you get up that day, then you can
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  Speaker 1: tell them, no worries, I'm good. And so I always
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  Speaker 1: tell people multiple streams of income is the key to
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  Speaker 1: be able to have some formal control in your life.
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  Speaker 1: So you constantly have to produce, You have to be created.
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  Speaker 1: You constantly have to say that I'm not done. You
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  Speaker 1: can't rely on the same Joe joke or the same
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  Speaker 1: trick move to get you out there. Otherwise they stopped
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  Speaker 1: coming to you because they said, oh, she does that
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  Speaker 1: type of production. Oh she does that. My guess, Holly
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  Speaker 1: Carter is that versatile person that I'm talking about. You
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  Speaker 1: look at her Slater programming, and it's all different, Miss Carter.
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  Speaker 1: How do you accomplish that task of being so unique,
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  Speaker 1: being so well in this day and age. You you
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  Speaker 1: have to be versatile. You can't just do one thing.
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  Speaker 1: And you you know, you never know where you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: find the light. Um when you look at love and
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  Speaker 1: listening and next big things. Uh, they are both a
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  Speaker 1: little different from what I've done in the past, from
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  Speaker 1: the Preacher's franchise to the Shears to um Fix my Choir,
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  Speaker 1: those things, you know, they're they're very different. They're young,
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  Speaker 1: they're millennial, they're a little more edgy, but at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, they're still redemptive opportunity um in
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  Speaker 1: all of you know, in both shows and and that's
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's the part of my brand. But you
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  Speaker 1: but you have to be versatile. Now, that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: you start to do everything. I just I do believe though,
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  Speaker 1: you have to be versatile in order to keep up
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  Speaker 1: this culture. And I'm very centered on pop culture and
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  Speaker 1: how I want to make a difference there. What are
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  Speaker 1: you what are you most proud of that you that
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  Speaker 1: you're doing currently or you have done? Um, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I would say I'm really proud of the Clark
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  Speaker 1: Sisters movie because it took me almost fifteen years to
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  Speaker 1: bring that to past and because what it represents to
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  Speaker 1: the Black church, black church culture, because you know, this
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  Speaker 1: family is iconic, and to be able to bring this
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  Speaker 1: to the forefront, to the light has been a big,
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  Speaker 1: big lesson for me. I mean, I'm proud of all
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  Speaker 1: of my shows. I'm excited about everything I'm working on.
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  Speaker 1: So because that took so long, um, and because what
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  Speaker 1: I know it means to the Black church culture, it
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  Speaker 1: makes me extra proud. When you say that when you
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  Speaker 1: the black choke church culture, the faith culture, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: that would I would I be wrong in saying that
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  Speaker 1: puts additional pressure on the story? Is it? And how
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  Speaker 1: you tell it? Because you're dealing with brands that are
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  Speaker 1: that that you can't play with their brands just the
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  Speaker 1: church just there. It's tied to a faith that they
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  Speaker 1: have that they've cultivated over the years. Does that put
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  Speaker 1: extra pressure on how you produce their products? Oh? Absolutely yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Because you know, it's like serving multiple masters. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to serve the family, you've got to serve the network,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got to serve the audience. So it's pressure,
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  Speaker 1: all right, And that's why I was looking at the
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  Speaker 1: reading the just the bideline about your company Multifaceted Entertainment
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  Speaker 1: company specializing in talent partnerships, brand development, and television film production.
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  Speaker 1: The thing I thing I lean on is that talent partnership.
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  Speaker 1: What exactly does that mean When you say that, I
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  Speaker 1: have a sense of what that is. I just want
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  Speaker 1: you to just detail it a little bit more to
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  Speaker 1: my audience. Talent partnership, because that's we just talked about.
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  Speaker 1: When you're dealing with people who are of strong value
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  Speaker 1: branded relates, ships, and you can't mess with you, you
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  Speaker 1: can't play, and you can't fudge it, you can't go
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood on it because guess what they have to go
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  Speaker 1: back out into that culture and extend their careers to
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  Speaker 1: the next level. Right Well, it literally means, you know,
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  Speaker 1: partnering with the talent to move an idea forward, a
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  Speaker 1: book forward, a brand concept forward, whatever, and that hard
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  Speaker 1: that they are passionate about, you know, and we partner,
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  Speaker 1: we come together. Then that that my job is to
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  Speaker 1: uh figure out the right platform, the right partnership forwards
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  Speaker 1: to move the idea forward. The thing about it that
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  Speaker 1: you know, I asked you that question, Rachean, what what
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  Speaker 1: are you most proud of? And when I think of Holly,
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  Speaker 1: I think of the years I've known you. The thing
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  Speaker 1: that I always loved about you was to merge summit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be honest with you. When I did
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  Speaker 1: those I it was so many people who were there
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  Speaker 1: just wanted information on how to win, how to learn,
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  Speaker 1: how to how can I not make the same mistake
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  Speaker 1: over and over again? And it was and it was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because she get mad at me because you know,
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  Speaker 1: you you come there, you're not supposed to use in it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, salty words, and I would use them periodically.
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  Speaker 1: It was just like my mom on the side, Rashwan.
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  Speaker 1: You know where you at, Rashwan, you can't say that.
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  Speaker 1: And it was, it was, it was, it was always.
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  Speaker 1: It was always fun for me to participate because of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it was about paying it forward. And
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  Speaker 1: that really is something I feel from a from a
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  Speaker 1: a person who looked so far. You are changing the game,
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  Speaker 1: You're you're blessing people, you're opening doors, and do you
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  Speaker 1: see it there the same way I'm seeing it because
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that I know you started and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you can be so deep in it and just producing
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  Speaker 1: it every year. Now you put it on the road,
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  Speaker 1: which means there's even more complexities to that being produced.
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  Speaker 1: You took it the essence this year. I've seen it
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  Speaker 1: in Baltimore, you know every other years back in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: Were originated from am I and my saying too much.
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  Speaker 1: Are you saying you're dead on with what? What? What?
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  Speaker 1: What you're trying to achieve with the Merge Summit? No,
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  Speaker 1: you're dead on. I mean that's UH. When you go
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  Speaker 1: back and you ask what are you most proud of?
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  Speaker 1: You know, from a project standpoint, I'm proud of all
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  Speaker 1: my projects. What makes the clocks of especial? With what
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  Speaker 1: I said, when you talk about my endeavors or my
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  Speaker 1: ventures or those legacy moments, I think I'm really proud
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  Speaker 1: at the Merge because that to your point, what it represents,
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  Speaker 1: what it does for other believers, what it does for
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  Speaker 1: other creative people. UM the fact that next year will
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  Speaker 1: be launching UH Inset, which is Merge Extension Program, which
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  Speaker 1: will be a accredited um UH Extensions College program for
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  Speaker 1: those who want to take the Merge further. If it's
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  Speaker 1: a nine month program, so that's an extension of Merge
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  Speaker 1: and it's a it's another opportunity to give access, to
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  Speaker 1: give platform, give opportunity. So I am super proud of
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  Speaker 1: what Merge has accomplished, and I'm looking for to be
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  Speaker 1: even bigger. I want to continue to provide opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: continue to connect the dots for people that really have
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  Speaker 1: a heart for entertainment. Well, when you say bigger, just
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  Speaker 1: being nosy, what do you say when you say you
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  Speaker 1: want to be bigger? Was it a bigger facility, bigger
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  Speaker 1: more attendance, bigger talent to participate. What do you mean
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  Speaker 1: when you say bigger, bigger everything I want? I need bigger.
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  Speaker 1: I need bigger partners to make it bigger. I want
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  Speaker 1: more people to experience the opportunity, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: create a bigger and better experience for them. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: I need to be vision oriented exactly what it says
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  Speaker 1: twenty vision awesome. Let's talk about this project, live action
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  Speaker 1: feature film for Fox Family based on your father's life
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  Speaker 1: and development called Music to My Ears. Talk about that,
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  Speaker 1: but it's really based on my dad's uh life work,
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  Speaker 1: what he did with the homeless community, the homeless and
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  Speaker 1: underprivileged and how he used music and um outreach to
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  Speaker 1: help change their lives. And so Divine Franklin and I
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  Speaker 1: are doing this together at Fox Family. We are now
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  Speaker 1: at the stages of a new script and uh hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we will land this plane by the end of the
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  Speaker 1: year and be ready to go into production next year.
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  Speaker 1: And what what now is? Is there going to be
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  Speaker 1: a time period piece and going sending current town? It's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's really a uh sister act need yeah
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  Speaker 1: with with angels. It's it's a it's part um live
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  Speaker 1: action and the other part of c g I, and
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty much the c g I p are are
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  Speaker 1: the angels. But it's it's definitely it's definitely like Sister
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  Speaker 1: Acts with Angels. Uh, and a lot of it takes
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  Speaker 1: place in heaven. So it's so it's such a fun story.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool. Then let menages. Are you when I met you,
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  Speaker 1: you were managing talent? Are you managing talent with your
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  Speaker 1: agency now or that's something that you just doing partnerships? No,
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  Speaker 1: I only do talent partnerships, and my focus is strictly
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  Speaker 1: on talent partnerships, and I will I will manage the
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  Speaker 1: projects that have partnered with talent, but that traditional day
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  Speaker 1: to day manages. You know, I no longer do that.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I love it, I love it. But my friend,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so happy you took the time to come on
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  Speaker 1: the show and share your your blessings and also share
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  Speaker 1: your vision. And believe me when I said, when I
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  Speaker 1: spoke to your name, the compliments roared from Rockefeller, They
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  Speaker 1: roared out, and they would not um they didn't slow down.
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  Speaker 1: So keep doing what you're doing and keep winning. And
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on money making conversations so awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for Seane