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Rushion speaks with President & General Manager of the American Black Film Festival, Jeff & Nicole Friday as well as Co-Owner of TradeHouse Investment Group, Bryce Thompson. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Jeff and the Cold Friday, both for HBCU graduates of
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  Speaker 1: Howard University. Jeff is the founder and CEO of the
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  Speaker 1: American Black Film Festival and the Coal is the President
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  Speaker 1: and general manager the American Black Film Festival. The a
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  Speaker 1: BFL is an annual event dedicated to recognizing Black talent
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  Speaker 1: and showcasing quality film and television content by and about
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  Speaker 1: people of African American Days sent and the festivals returned
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  Speaker 1: to Miami Beach. Yeah, come on, so I got it
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  Speaker 1: too excited to sorry about that. The festivals now celebrating
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  Speaker 1: this twenty fifth year. We'll be discussing the festival objectives,
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  Speaker 1: their partnership deals with Sony Pictures, Entertainment and Endeavor Content,
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  Speaker 1: and most importantly, how the two successfully worked together in
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  Speaker 1: business as partners as a married couple. Please working the
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  Speaker 1: money making conversations, Jeff and Nicole Friday, how my team doing?
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  Speaker 1: Come on, y'all, how y'all doing well. I gotta go
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  Speaker 1: to my man Jeff, because I've been knowing him along,
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  Speaker 1: because I've been following them since ninety seven, you know
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  Speaker 1: when I when I was when he was down to
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  Speaker 1: AKA Polco, the very first one, you know, when I
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  Speaker 1: just wrapped up writing on the sitcom with Robert Townson's parenthood,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the very first. That was the very
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  Speaker 1: first one officially resident in ninety seven. Correct, that's right,
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  Speaker 1: and and thank you for your support. Yet ninety seven
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  Speaker 1: was the first year and Robert was right there. Whether
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  Speaker 1: he's one of the first people, uh that we called
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  Speaker 1: when we decided to do this festival for black and
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  Speaker 1: brown folks. So I gotta shout out my brother Robert. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I always telling him, you know, he's important
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  Speaker 1: in my life. I was at the time I got
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  Speaker 1: into sitcom. See Harvard gave me my first writing job
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  Speaker 1: on ABC, Me and the Boys, and uh it was
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  Speaker 1: unceremon only lead canceled and I had no nowhere to go,
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  Speaker 1: and Robert Councord called me and he hired me. And
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  Speaker 1: I was telling him every time I see him Without
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  Speaker 1: him about I wouldn't have a career in Hollywood because
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  Speaker 1: he trusted my voice, he trusted my writing skills. And
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  Speaker 1: when I talk about things like that, that's why it's
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  Speaker 1: important to have people empower people who are trying to
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  Speaker 1: deliver the message or the creative support or the platform
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  Speaker 1: for black and people of color. So that's why this
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  Speaker 1: film festival is so important. That's why I have to say,
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  Speaker 1: it's not something that just came around last week. It's
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  Speaker 1: something that's been around it. But it had to start somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: and it started with you. Why did it start with you? Jeff? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's funny because people always answered that question.
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  Speaker 1: I think the most um accurate response I could give
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  Speaker 1: is because I was I was working in advertising in
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  Speaker 1: and when I would go to major film festivals, I
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  Speaker 1: never saw black and brown people. I primarily saw white men.
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  Speaker 1: And I was, you know, I was impressed with what
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  Speaker 1: I would see. It was creative, and it was deals
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  Speaker 1: getting made, and you know, there's a whole industry around
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  Speaker 1: film that people that we don't really think about, right,
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  Speaker 1: and festivals are market for buying and selling movies. And
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't see brothers and sisters there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought that that needed to be a change
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  Speaker 1: in my nature. And when I don't, when I see
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  Speaker 1: something that brings me discomfort, I don't complain about I
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  Speaker 1: just I just do something about it. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've always been very action oriented, and we decided I
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  Speaker 1: partnered with Byron Lewis and Warrenton, there were two of
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  Speaker 1: my mentors and friends, and we created the festival. We
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  Speaker 1: did the first one, as you know, in Acapulco, Mexico. UM.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety people showed up the first time, and for all
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  Speaker 1: the millennials out there, there were no cell phones, there
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  Speaker 1: was no Instagram, we had no convenient ways of even
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  Speaker 1: promoting it. You know. We just kind of went around
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  Speaker 1: the different cities and got on radio shows and things
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  Speaker 1: like this, and it just became a thing. And ninety
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  Speaker 1: people showed up. But the first year we had Robert
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  Speaker 1: as we said, halle Berry was there. Bill Duke has
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  Speaker 1: been a friend forever and it's a big time supporter
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  Speaker 1: of everything that we've done. UM, Baby Faced Debbie Allen,
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  Speaker 1: Regina King, you know, people like that. So we really
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  Speaker 1: got off to a great start and we and we
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  Speaker 1: realized after that first week John that it really was
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  Speaker 1: we really were filling in filling a gap, filling a
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  Speaker 1: need for bringing black people together in film and TV.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really been our story and our mission for
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  Speaker 1: the past twenty five years. Now we know black, black
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  Speaker 1: and brown people together in film and team, which was
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  Speaker 1: really a journey. And when we're bringing the cold Nicole,
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  Speaker 1: you have said, I always you have like that third eye,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because you're seeing it. You know he started
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  Speaker 1: to it. And sometimes when you just start something, you
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  Speaker 1: grinding and and then some of the things you don't
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  Speaker 1: see because you're so protective sometimes and sometimes you just
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  Speaker 1: say this is the way I want to do it.
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  Speaker 1: But when you ruin that third eye in the cold,
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  Speaker 1: that's what you brought. You the president general manager of
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  Speaker 1: the a b FL, What did you see after when
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  Speaker 1: I wor when I say the world change, change is good,
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  Speaker 1: but also people can perceive change is bad, something was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: What did you see that they elevated the platform of
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  Speaker 1: a BFM. Yeah, I mean I would say that it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't something that I saw that needed to be changed.
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  Speaker 1: It was definitely definitely more growth opportunities um that I
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  Speaker 1: think we have been able to do together. And I
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  Speaker 1: always like to tell people I've been like and I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to take too much credit, but I've been
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  Speaker 1: the Michelle Obama absolutely here for years. I've been I've
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  Speaker 1: been the pillow talker. I've been behind the scenes, always
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  Speaker 1: knowing what's going on and letting a helping hand from
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  Speaker 1: Afar and in recent within the past five years, I
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  Speaker 1: guess I've really been on the front lines with Jeff
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  Speaker 1: as his as his partner, and what we've been able
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  Speaker 1: to do together, Um, you know, what he had started
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  Speaker 1: obviously was was a need for this platform to create
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  Speaker 1: diversity and inclusion, and we continued to build that through
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  Speaker 1: the years and even last year when we had to
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  Speaker 1: we couldn't be in Miami obviously because of the pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: We decided that we wanted to still keep a place
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  Speaker 1: or have a place for the community because it's so
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  Speaker 1: important for the filmmakers to be able to showcase their talent,
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  Speaker 1: and what better place to do it than than the
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  Speaker 1: American Black Film Festival. So we didn't want to just
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  Speaker 1: go away last year. We didn't want to do anything.
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  Speaker 1: We wanted to have a place, and so we built
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  Speaker 1: the platform, a virtual platform so that we could have
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  Speaker 1: those filmmakers um showcase their their artistry. UM, so that
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  Speaker 1: you know, we wouldn't miss a beat, they would miss
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  Speaker 1: a beat. UM. But I think that it's just been
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  Speaker 1: growth and so that's part of the growth that I've
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  Speaker 1: been able to help UM lead or help help Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: Do you side by side, I would say that, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know the thing. The thing about it is that
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  Speaker 1: when when I when I communicate with both of you guys.
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  Speaker 1: The Jeff because he brought up Byn Lewis. I remember
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  Speaker 1: the first time I was sitting in Byn Lewis office
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  Speaker 1: and Byron Lewis and founder just a background, see if
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  Speaker 1: he created UNI World, one of the largest black media
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  Speaker 1: advertising is based in New York, also have headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the first time I really you know, a
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  Speaker 1: b FF came our radar because he was talking about
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  Speaker 1: Miami and he was asking me Rashan, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: was talking about different that and so the thing I
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  Speaker 1: liked about my relationship with Jeff is that I've always
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  Speaker 1: been a fan and people have always asked me and like, like,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I've gotten Jeff on when I was managing
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  Speaker 1: Stephen running the morning show Steve Hart, I've gotten them
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  Speaker 1: on that because I always felt what he was doing
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  Speaker 1: was necessary, It was important because but there was a
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  Speaker 1: period where right now, you guys seem like to be
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  Speaker 1: at the right place at the right time, because there's
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  Speaker 1: so many black muviees out there's so many great black
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  Speaker 1: television shows, it's so many black documentaries. I but it
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  Speaker 1: was a period that, Jeff, when when reality TV and
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  Speaker 1: black people just beating each other up and cousin and
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  Speaker 1: throw a look a glass at each other. That was
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  Speaker 1: a dark period to me as a writer for black entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: And it wasn't out there. So how did you ride
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  Speaker 1: that moment? Because right now, this is like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ever since, especially since a Black Panther, the whole black
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  Speaker 1: creative has exploded, you know, Netflix in the streaming world.
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  Speaker 1: So I think you have to be at the point
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  Speaker 1: where you go, Man, this ride is about to get
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  Speaker 1: even greater. And Nicole you said right there with him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with your visionary as well as your husband's
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  Speaker 1: being a visionary. So talk about that period, Jeff, did
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about? Man, when it was
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  Speaker 1: like really this is what this this this the black
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  Speaker 1: perspective in the media. Yeah, it was worse than you Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know how bad. It was that you've been on
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  Speaker 1: the ride. But you know, I remember doing an interview
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  Speaker 1: and I won't say the publication because the publication supports
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  Speaker 1: us now, right, but let's let's bygones be bygones if
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  Speaker 1: you say right. I remember, I remember doing an interview
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  Speaker 1: in this woman came to Acapulco and she said, in
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  Speaker 1: a very sarcastic tone, Jeff, why are you guys doing this?
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  Speaker 1: Why are you doing this? In a very sarcastic tone,
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  Speaker 1: And this is a major, major industry trade publication. And
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  Speaker 1: I said, excuse me. She said, well, why why a
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  Speaker 1: black filth But why does the world need a black
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  Speaker 1: film festival? And she just set herself up and and
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  Speaker 1: I just said, because Hollywood and when and I just came.
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  Speaker 1: I never had that thought before, but those two words
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  Speaker 1: came together. Because Hollywood, that's why we're doing it. And
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  Speaker 1: in Rushan as you well know that there've been this
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  Speaker 1: has been an industry where they've been tremendous in equities
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  Speaker 1: for people of color, and black people probably have it
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  Speaker 1: better than everybody else with fellow right, and you talk
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  Speaker 1: about Latino and Asian and Indian, and so this is
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  Speaker 1: what the word this is what Hollywood has been. Hollywood's
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  Speaker 1: a hundred plus years old, and for the whole ride,
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  Speaker 1: until Oscar so white, nobody had a conscious about black coach,
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  Speaker 1: no one was really in supporting So listen, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that I look at a little differently. We had
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  Speaker 1: a vision for what Hollywood needed to look like in
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood just caught up to us. I didn't respond because
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  Speaker 1: when we started, Hollywood wasn't thinking about black and brown.
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  Speaker 1: It was doing exactly what you said. A couple of
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  Speaker 1: black movies we got, we got to two thousand, everything
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  Speaker 1: became about reality shows and black people in in content.
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  Speaker 1: And as a black writer, you know how many black
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  Speaker 1: writers are working theday and and got deals at studios.
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  Speaker 1: And first looked that if they were fifteen years older,
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  Speaker 1: they would have been doing nothing like this whole generation
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  Speaker 1: of writers that are doing great, you know, and I
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  Speaker 1: love it, but it had they been fifteen years older,
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  Speaker 1: they would have experienced what you're talking about right when
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing to write. And so we feel blessed to
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  Speaker 1: have had the vision and the perseverance. And yes, Nicole
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  Speaker 1: is the right the third eye. That's a perfect analogy
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  Speaker 1: because I felt like you're in my head when you
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  Speaker 1: said that, because as a founder, you get so obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with the details and the hustle and the grind, you
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  Speaker 1: often can't see things because your mind is not clear sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: So you do need that that person who you trust
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  Speaker 1: to be that third and that's been her role, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and we've been doing this together since since
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  Speaker 1: since she joined me at the second one, the third,
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  Speaker 1: whatever year was, but you know it's been it's been
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  Speaker 1: a long it's been a live Stop him, he don't know,
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  Speaker 1: he don't remember. You remember what I'm saying. That's for
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  Speaker 1: me get in trouble. I didn't listen rich Out. I
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: didn't say time. I said, don't on the wedding days.
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  Speaker 1: I love my the birth few days. It's why can't
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: you say over two decades that the brother brother, she's
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: been with me for more than two decades. That's that's
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: I love it. But you know, you know the code
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about press and you talk about general manager,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about you know, because this this ride is
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  Speaker 1: always filled with people doubting, people are questioning the need.
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  Speaker 1: You know, because you got the can Film Festival. There
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  Speaker 1: literally white folks over there looking good looking, great cameras
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  Speaker 1: clicking and everything and in body black people to your thing,
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  Speaker 1: they go, why what's happening? Who they are? And so
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: turning that lens in your direction? How will you able
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: to turn that leans and keep it steady on the
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  Speaker 1: platform that that you and Jeff have built to this
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  Speaker 1: brand today that's well respected. By the way, Let me
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  Speaker 1: just let everybody know because that's important because somehow people go, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be a part of that because I
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: know people ask me, they tell me. And so Nicole,
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: you're the president of general manager, to talk about your role,
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  Speaker 1: talk about things that annoy you, that have annoyed you
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  Speaker 1: that you you know that you won't let nobody disrespect
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: the brand, and you have to check people periodically, let
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: them know that this content is a is a has
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  Speaker 1: a purpose and will continue to grow. You know, the
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: proof is in the pudding. Honestly, it has been. It
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  Speaker 1: has been a slow bill and and many stories are
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  Speaker 1: you look at them and they seem like their overnight successes.
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  Speaker 1: A b FF has not been that. It may seem
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  Speaker 1: that way to some, but it has been twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years of grinding and I would say probably you said
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  Speaker 1: something really interesting. Um maybe in the last I don't know, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: you could help me out a little bit here, But
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  Speaker 1: maybe the last five years have we really gotten the
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  Speaker 1: mainstream notoriety that we've deserved UM long ago. I mean
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  Speaker 1: when I say the proof is in the pudding, there
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  Speaker 1: are there are stars that have come through the festival
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  Speaker 1: that we're not stars when we started, when they started, uh.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think because of that, because those people
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  Speaker 1: have remained connected to us throughout these years, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what level they have been on, I think that that
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  Speaker 1: has brought some attention to what we've been doing for
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  Speaker 1: really long time. UM. And as the president and general manager,
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  Speaker 1: I mean Jeff was right, I did. I bring a
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  Speaker 1: different perspective. And when you've been doing it for as
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  Speaker 1: long as Jeff has been doing and I've been alongside
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  Speaker 1: of him, UM, sometimes you don't see the reason why
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  Speaker 1: you should continue to do this. And there's always a moment.
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  Speaker 1: There's always a moment, whether it's something someone said or
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  Speaker 1: something someone did, or whether it's talent, or whether it's
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  Speaker 1: a partner of ours, or whether it's just um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: an an audience member or an attendee that has come
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  Speaker 1: to the festival. There's always a reason why we say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what this is, this is important. But we've
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  Speaker 1: done here, We've done something here, um, and this is
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  Speaker 1: important and we have to keep doing it. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what keeps us going. That's what keeps me in this
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  Speaker 1: presidential seat, that's what keeps me as as the general
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  Speaker 1: manager uh and and certainly that's what keeps Jeff going
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  Speaker 1: as the founder and the CEO of this organization. And
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  Speaker 1: there have been times, tell you, there have been times
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  Speaker 1: we've said we're done, um, But those moments that come
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  Speaker 1: and happen really are those that keep us going. And
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• 20:32
  Speaker 1: back to Mindy Making Conversation. As I continue my conversation
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: with both the President and the general manager of the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: American Black Film Festival, Jeff and Nicole Friday, Well, you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I always see that you guys are to me like
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the comic con you know, uh, just black media, black film,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: black television, but You can't be great unless you have content.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: And that's what the last five years is delivering to
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: your brand, quality content, not the same person, new content,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: new branding, new stars, new directors, new producers, you know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: independence that are that are rising and breaking through those
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: those models. That's what gets me excited about the fifth years,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the twenty six years or twenty seven year because you
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: know what, it's not gonna stop because streaming is not
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: going to allow it to stop. Streaming has changed the
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: game because that content they need has to come from somewhere.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And the reason I love what what Netflix has done,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't realize is that because
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you how people who are listening and
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: watching my show, they premier movies on a hundred and
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: ninety markets countries worldwide, hundred countries worldwide. Usually when you
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: have black content, it just premiers domestically. It doesn't even
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: see international waters. And so what has happened is they've
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: they've opened up the doors and exposed our quality level
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: of entertainment worldwide now and so when I look at
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the A BFF, your brand is now worldwide and you're
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: starting to reap the benefits of that brand Association. So
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: tell me, Jeff, what does this feel like for you,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: because I'm excited. Man. It is in Miami. You know,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: COVID steals there, but we're coming out of it. You know.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I've done just I've just finished doing three live events
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina and people showed up.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: They wore masks, but they feel comfortable. So I'm excited, man,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: talk to us about the fifth year. Yeah, so this year,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: of course, it is a big year for us. But
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: this year we decided because of COVID that we would
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: not be in the Miami Live We'll be back in
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Miami in June two for our anniversary, but we got
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: we But what we've done is we've built a virtual platform.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: So the festival goes up November three. On our platform,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: we have our own version of Netflix and two degree
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it's called a fifth Play. We have our own streaming
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: online streaming platform. So we're excited about a hundred We
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: have a hundred and two move meets in about twenty
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: five talk events. We're opening with the world premiere of
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: King Richard from Warner Brothers starring Will Smith. So we
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: had this amazing, amazing lineup of robust content across and
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: film Chaunt films from thirty five countries around the world.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: So we are we're we're creating what we call a
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: global a worldwide digital experience is going up November third.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: The best news is the festival is completely free, So
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: anyone anywhere around the world and enjoy the movies and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: see the talk events and be a part of a
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: v f F this year, and we're gonna return strong
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: in two you know, God willing, we'll be back and
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: we'll be somewhat more recovered from COVID. Hopefully we'll be
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: back in Miami of June of next year. I'm turning
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: they're waiting your brother, because like I said, I I know,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I just finished the HBCU Tour event. You know, I
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: was on the campus Alabama State. Then I went to
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the campus of Winster Sailor State, and then I wrapped
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: it up. It was a HBC you college day. And
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I want to tell you but I definitely want you
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: guys involved because I'm falling back out in the spring,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, and and a lot of people
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: pushed back on me with Sean, you're gonna do this,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and I had to do it. Man I had to.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: First of all, I needed to get these young kids
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: back seeing the options of education and that had been
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: denying them in That was the first and then thirdly
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: from my I had to I had to show everybody
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: that black people want to move forward. They're not afraid
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: of this. We can do it safely. You know, had masks,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you know, hand sanitizer with social distance. Uh, you know.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: People was in Alabama State campus. Uh. The event was
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: free to attend, um, you know. And then I was
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: in uh was to sail them. Four thousand people showed
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: up on the campus. Was on the parking lot right
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: next to the stadium, but football stadium. And then we
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: was writing the Heart of Clark Atlanta on nearly three
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: thousand people showed up here was on the President's parking lot.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: And so the beauty of what we're trying to do
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: is is moving forward. And when I look at what
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: your festival has done, man, Virtual Alive, Man, it's just
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: it's just a game changer. And I guess, Nicole, when
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I talked to Jail, because you know, I look at
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: him because I've seen him, I've seen him from a
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: far and you and and and and the fact that
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you've been there two decades, and you and I this
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: first time we're talking. I'm always kind of annoying him
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, because I didn't know he
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: had the right hand man that was out there, you know,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: pushing them up and making them strong like that. You
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Well, man, you know saying, I
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: apologize because pushing him up like this. But but you
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you're like me. You know, I'm a background guy. I'm
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: a producer. You know, I'm a director. I'm an executive producer,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: and that's my role. But in the end, what do
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: you what do you see being in virtual and then moving?
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Because I know you' all forward thinkers. You're already playing
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in Miami, you already knowing the twenty two is going
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: to exist. You know, the sponsors are to come at
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: you from a different perspective. I know back in the day,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I was thinking of y'all to all that stuff down
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: in Miami and all that stuff. You know what I'm saying,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: what what does it look like this year? And what
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: does it look like in the when a six years
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: when Nicole, make sure you tell about the comedy in
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: London too. I don't think what shall knows about that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: We're in London too. That's why I got we haven't
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: been talking about the code you take it, but talking Yeah,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: well you know you you mentioned, you mentioned how we're global.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Now we really are over and we're going over for
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: two reasons. One, we launched a b F London Festival
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  Speaker 1: in London, uh in twenty nineteen and so that was
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: our first with our partners Sony Pictures Entertainment. That was
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: our first festival. So we did travel abroad um, which great,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: we are global. And then last year, as I mentioned,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: because we were not able to be in Miami because
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: of the pandemic, we built a platform which Jeff just mentioned,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a b F play and we still housed our festival.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: So with that we reached ninety different countries. So there's
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: a lot of people globally who know about a b F.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Now go down to Nigeria because come on that we
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: had we we definitely had some Nigeria in PLAM last year.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: So it's exciting and I'll go back to the growth opportunity,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: you know, it's exciting to be able to have that
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: reach and so what we intended on doing this year
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: though we are not in Miami We were always going
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: to be a hybrid festival. We're gonna have a physical
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: presence in Miami, We're also going to have our global
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: presence or virtual presence on the platform. But because Covid
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: uh you know, continued, uh, we decided to just go
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: virtual again this year, and like Jeff said, really really
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: really excited about that. This year we also launched UM
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: a comedy festival. In June, we launched a v F
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: comedy festival because, as you probably know, at the festival,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: we have a comedy on called Comedy Wings. You know,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: this is this is a great time and an opportunity
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: for us to have a festival that's focused on of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: comedians and comedy writers. UM, there's so much content out there,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: There's so many talented people out there who are you know,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: are capable of who are capable of comedy and and
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: on the writing and UM and and that festival. That's
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: that's that's what actually sort of it's like the what's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the same if I told Jeff that we that you
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: attended just for just for last Montreal and then asked
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: me coming in festival, I know both for those is
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: just for laughs in Montreal. You know. The thing about it.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell you both of this is a compliment,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you know. And let me just tell you when I
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: when I when I talk about how the Nigerian and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: knowledge wood, that's what they call it knowledge wood down there.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: You know, that's they waiting on y'all. They just waiting
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: on y'all because y'all are the voice, y'all are the truth.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna tell you when I when I
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: see it, when you have when you have a legacy,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: when you have a background, you walk in the open
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the doors and you say sometimes you gotta set down
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: route someplace else for you to be respecting to go, wow,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: we part of this. You guys are doing it. I
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: want you all to continue to do it. But what
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I want you to do for me, do me a favor.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Keep me in the loop. Just keep me, Jeff to go,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: keep me in the loop. Somebody ever, ra Sean, when
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: you're doing these things, because I could promote it, you
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: gotta send me a banner, send me a flyer, because
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: that's how you need to be recognized. Your your your
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: flowers need to be promoted, your brand needs to be
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: That's what I do, man, I do it with I
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: do with no there's no there's no check here. I
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: do money making conversations because I love the fact that
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you guys are stars. You guys are the ones that
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: are enabling people like me, people like that. Steve Harvey's
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: like Steven A. Smith, Anthony Anderson's. I see what when
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I see look at the image awards that the rise
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: in the image reward to me is tied to the
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: same rise of the A b FL. I just see it.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I just see it, and I just know that the
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: gifts that y'all have, just let me know I want
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and if you, if you, if you let me know,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a friend, dude, I am your friend.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: And wo man, I gotta make sure you're man. You
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: know that right here? Man, you checked me hard. Hey, dude,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: that ain't now, Dude, that ain't now. But before I go,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I just want to talk about HBCUs a little bit
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: because hbc US because they've got a lot of recognition
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: of and a lot of people made a lot of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: corporate donations and and and and people are starting to
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: recognize the academic achievements and success of the graduates recognized
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: right here, you're black CEO. H c the CEOs in
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the country are black, come from h b c U
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: S HBC used as you and at eighteen percent, So
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: telling the importance of that how I shaped your life
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: starting with you, Jeff and Nicole, you can wrap it up,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and uh, I want to thank you for your time
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and allow me to speak to you and again send
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: me those banners and just every quarter just let me
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: know because I'm here to support your brand. Were will
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and just quickly you know, I think that historically HBCUs
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: have have been synonymous with most things black, which is
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: less thing. And but we all know those of us
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: who attended hc US. If there's anything it's nothing less
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: about the black experience for a black person. In fact,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: nothing more empowering to walk around a campus, whether at
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Alabama or un D C or or or Maryland anywhere
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: and to see people like you that are educated, that
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: are diverse. So HBCUs kind of shape how we view
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the world. And I haven't not met a person who
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: didn't feel the same way to some degree. So I'm
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: just personally happy to see that. And I don't care
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: how we got here. I kind of know how we
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: got here, but it doesn't that I'm just happy to
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: see that the world is starting to embrace the importance
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the corporate world in the culture right because with with
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: embrace comes financial resources that allows us to building me better.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just happy that the world's kind of catching up
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: to what everybody, all the black alumni and knew already
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: that these a magical places for young black people to
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: figure out and find out who they are. Yeah, I
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: would just concur with Jeff. I mean, if I had
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: to do it all over again, I resolutely when it's
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: sad Howard University where both Howard graduates, and I'll just
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: end on this note, really ate you. You know, happy
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: people might say something different not Halfton University than that,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: the saying that little argument there. But I'm talking to
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the fantastic is the aniversary. It's a virtual event. Festival
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: is free. November three is premiering Will Smith, newvie Keen Richards.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: You can check that out. A hundred in two movies,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: twenty five talkies. Thirty five countries are participating. It's an
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: event that it started way back when eighteen and eighty
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: seven Acapulco. I know because I was on the outside
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: looking the end, watching Robert Town's I saw it in
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Jet magazine. That's how I knew by That's that's how
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: only was I read about See Jeff, you know what
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: I'm telling the truth. You know I'm telling the truth.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: But I love I love you and Nicole. Thank you
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: for coming into my world. You're fantastic and I'm glad
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: to know that you guys realize who I am as
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: far as what I what I want to bring to
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the table for your brand, and it is your brand,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and it's a wonderful brand, and it's it's you know,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: sometimes you sit around Jeff and Nicole and you think
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: about something you don't really realize ten years or fifteen years.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: It's perfect. It's we needed you to have that vision
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: back in the eighties seven. Otherwise we wouldn't have this today. Brother,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Think about that. Think about that. Thank you all for
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: coming on Money Making Conversation. I appreciate both of you.
• 33:25
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• 33:28
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• 33:31
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• 33:34
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• 33:39
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• 33:42
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  Speaker 1: to money Making Conversation with Rashan McDonald. My next guest
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  Speaker 1: is Bryce Thompson. He is a serial entrepreneur, event planner,
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  Speaker 1: investor in a business, mentor to millennials. At the age
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: of twenty five, Bryce is considered an exception. He enjoys
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: hosting events opened to people of all ages and walks
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: of life, when he caters primarily to the millennial mindset.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Like every other black man in America, Bryce has felt
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: the stings of racism, which which is sad. It's just
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: twenty five and think at my age and you know which,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I understand the era that I grew up in. It
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't have to experience that, but he is. He's
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: been subjected to the scrutiny and limitations of stereotypes and
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: social structures designed to box those who looked like him
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: in life of mediography and of poverty. Have it in
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: spite of all this, He's called out a plan for
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: success that is centered the poem, having an impact bigger
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: than himself. He's the co founder of trade House Investment
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Group and chairman of it It'll All Makes Sense nonprofit.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: He's on the shore to talk about his new book,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Millennials Accepted and Accepted. Please welcome to money making Conversations.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I'm calling a good friend because from Houston, Texas or
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Missouri City, I knew exactly what that said. Bryce Thompson,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: how you doing, Bryce? How are you doing? How are
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: you doing? I'm happy to be or great? Bryce? Um,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: that's that's you know. At twenty five, man like going
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: on in this book, Brother like going on. It's been
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: a good last five years for sure. Well let's talk
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: about the early years, because I think that's what lays
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: the foundation. Um off Air, I was just telling you.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I remember I was making decisions on where I wanted
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to go to college. IMNA tell you the man, I
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: didn't really want to go to college, you know, but
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I just thought I wanted to be a forklift driver.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: That's what I wanted. I was inspired when I was
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: sixteen years old. My first job by these by these guys.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: They were black men. They were living a good life,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: driving forklift and unloaded trucks and life. I said, that's
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: what I wanted to do. So I always feel that
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: what you see it in early life could drive you
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: to be what you could possibly be as you start
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: to assent what inspired you as a young youth just
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: to be the man that you are today, and you're
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: still climbing to be even a bigger man than you
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: are today. Talk to us about that, right, um, well,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: more more more surface level, I would say, uh, or
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: or deeper rather, I would say my environment for one
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: of my my mom especially always made sure I was in,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: you know, a really good environment. You know. First I
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: started with school, uh, you know. Then she was very
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: particular about the people that I would hang around. So
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I was always surrounded around people that were out doing
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: great things, like people that were out, you know, striving
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: for massive success. So in turn that inspired me and
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: then more service level, my mom has always been an
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs She raised you know, me and my brother um
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: strictly off of entrepreneurial income pretty much our whole lives.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: So that that really inspired me to go out and
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: make something out of nothing and then even more service level.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: My older brother, Uh. You know, he was the first
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: person that I saw graduate college, you know, go on
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: and get a good job. And at the time for me,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you know, going out getting a good job, especially a
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: six figure income paying job, you know, that was you know,
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: seeing in that as a kid or you know, a
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: college student, that was like my first figure of success.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, cool, I gotta go to college. I
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: gotta graduate, I gotta get a good job. I gotta
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: be successful. I gotta you know, be able to go
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: out and support myself. So you know, early on, I'm like,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I have to go out there and do something. I
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: can't just stay at home and you know, be you know,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: a regular degular Schegler. Well, absolutely, I think that. Uh.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: And when in reading this book, you know, millions accepted
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: and accepted, uh, because I always felt that when I
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: was growing in life, I have been the accepted the
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: word or the exceptiontion. I guess basically what that is.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: You know, people say I thought differently. I you know,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I projected my outcome. You know, I came from a
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: black community. I grew up I went to high school
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: in Forest Brook in Houston, Texas. Is not even opening
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the more. In fact, I've torn the school down, and
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: as I so, my whole outlook was black. You know,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I got him the bus to go downtown with another
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: black people on the bus. When I got back on
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the bus to go back to my house with another
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: more black people on bus. It wasn't ntil I was
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: eighteen that I started to see diversity in my life.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: And so when did you start seeing a diversity and
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: life or was it always there? Because in your book
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: you talk about how your mother it was very important
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: that you have a diverse look perspective of life, and
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: it really kind of opened you up. Correct, right, absolutely, Um,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I've pretty much lived a diverse life from as as
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: long as I can remember, I would say early on,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I you know, I remember being at pretty much predominantly
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: black middle school and elementary. More so elementary. I just
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: went to the neighborhood school and Misserias so don't went
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: to Coil Valley. I don't know if you've ever heard of. Yeah,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: So I went to Coil Valley Elementary School. And from
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: what my mom tells me, and I can't really remember,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: but she remembers way way more than I do, I
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: stood out from a lot of other students. You know,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I made the best grades. I was at the top
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: of my class, and my teachers they recommended right that,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: my teachers recommended that she put me in a you know,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: a higher education like she put me around you know
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: people that that that were learning at a more elite level.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: So she started looking into, you know, higher learning schools
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: around the area. She started looking in the private schools.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: And then that's when you know, that was my first
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: time going to private school back in the second half
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: of like sixth grade. So I ended up getting into
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: a private school um in the in the Houston area
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: of Forben Foreben Academy. I don't know if you've heard
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: of Foreben Academy. I'll let'm just slow your died by Houston, man.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I was raised and when I died, they're gonna bury
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: me in Houston. So that way, you just talking normal
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: about Houston. I know where the techet Lug hood is,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I know where West are Mills. I know we're a
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: few queers. I know Salt May runs right smack down
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: the middle of Missouri City. I know all that. So
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: you just talk normal me man. We have a good
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: time on this interview. Price oh yeah, you know more
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: than well. Yeah, so I went I went to Foreben Academy,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: and that was like, that was the first time where
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I wasn't in a very diverse um environment like I was.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I was one of the very few African Americans. Um.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: You know, most of the students that I that I
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: was going to school at the time, they were they
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: came m pretty rich, wealthy, well off family household. So
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: that wasn't me. It was a little more. I was
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: more of an outlier for the first time. And but
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I still did really well in school. I still did
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: I still did really well in sports. And then I
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: went off to high school. I ended up going back
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: to public school. I went to Lamar. My first year,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I got back into a diverse environment, um, but still
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: at the top of my class I was into. I
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: was in the IB program, still doing really well in school. Uh.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: And I also was playing sports at the time. So
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: sports is what put me back into the private school
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: environment because Lamar didn't have the best basketball program at
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: the time, um, at least my freshman year. I don't
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: know how, I don't know what it is right now,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: but I ended up looking into Westbury Christian Westbury Christian
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: had like top, top notch basketball program my freshman year
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: and I transferred back over the Westbury Christian. That was
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: the first time was in a environment where the education
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: was a lot higher, but it was also still diverse,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: So it wasn't like a situation where you know, I
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: was the only black kid or I was the only
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: you know kid that didn't come from a wealthy or
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: rich family. It was it was a little bit of everything.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: And then when I went to Moor House, I went
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: back into you know, this environment of like, okay, this
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: everybody's African, amrry, everybody's black. But the one thing that
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: you know, really changed everything for me was the fact
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: that I was at more House around a bunch of
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: people that looked like me, came from similar backgrounds, but
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: the common denominator of all of us was we really
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: like everybody wanted to be successful at more House like
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: that was like that that was a need. It was
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: an assessment, like you needed You're going to more House,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: that are just just having that title attached to your name,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: like you had to become you had to become something,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: which was really interesting because you know, you wanted to
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: go to Harvard, but really you technically went to Harvard,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: you know. And that's more hard when you look at
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the legacies that's tied to that post from a from
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: a from an academic standpoint, because I'm always a proponent
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: of advocate, I should say of what HBCUs. You know,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: any percent of the black doctors and Dennis come from HBCUs.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: For the percent of the members of Congress who are
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: black con from HBCUs, fifth percent of the public Woods
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: teachers who are black con from HBCUs of the twenty percent,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: and just went up, I just study came out of
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: this stem graduate to a black con from HBCU. So
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: you went to Harvard, you know. And so and that
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: that getting in an environment that was equally academic competitive,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: because even when you went to West Christian Academy, that
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: was a competitive environment. Because that was just explaining everybody
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: when he was talking about Lamar University in Houston right
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: off a West Tim is a football powerhouse. I mean
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: that's a bad school. Now what's in the Christian Academy?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: They recruit people like he might be Bryce might be good,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: but they won't let him know that they're bringing in
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: full more goods. And so that puts you in another
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: competitive environment. So you've always been in a competitive environment.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: You've always been challenged physically to be better than the
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: person sitting right next to you. So that probably played
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: very well for you in the lanes that you're successful
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: in now, correct, absolutely for sure. Now with that being said,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: when you when you when you had the option to
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: go to preview full Ride, full Ride, the book talks
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: about it, you know, and uh previous an excellent institution
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: right down the street by forty five fifty minutes from Houston, Texas.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Dad took you down there, but that gud didn't sit
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: right from you. Why didn't he sit right for you? Um?
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: You know, for it didn't give me that like even
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: though I got a full ride and you know, it
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: wasn't too far from home, I didn't for the first time,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: I just didn't feel like I would be competing at
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: an elite level. I felt like I wouldn't be, you know,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: surrounded around, you know, a bunch of people that necessarily
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know like that. It was just that it
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: factor that I was looking for, And that's why I
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: wanted to go to Harvard. Harvard, you know, it's Harvard,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Like you hear Harvard. It's like, yo, you go to Harvard,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: and then I'll tell them, like yo, I'm going to
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: prayer of you. And it was it was more common
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: coming from where I'm from, like you from Houston, Texas,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: even from a Zeri City, Texas. Mostly everybody is gonna
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: go to you of h or tissue or prayer of you.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: So for me, I wanted to step outside the box
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: as far as a you know, a school and the
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: institution is concerned. And you know, I graduated at the
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: top of my class, like like I was the number
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: ten students, not not ten percent, but ten like ten
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: people in my in my high school class. So I'm thinking, like, I,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: you know, let me, let me apply to Harvard. Harvard
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: never got back with me and my mom. Last minute
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: I came back from preview, my mom my dad dropped
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: me back off at my mom's house and I, you know,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I told her, you know, they offered me a full
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: ride and I wouldn't have to pay for school, and
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: you know, she still could see it on my face
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: that it just wasn't really doing it for me, and
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: then she encouraged me to apply to More House. Got
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: in the more House. They gave me a um, you know,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: a scholarship to a pre program that they were having
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: over the summer. I went to the I went to
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: the campus over summer. I fell in love with it
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: and at that point I'm like, okay, I have to
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: come back in the fall. This is the school that
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going to. And I just I ended up there.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: We congratulations because it changed your life. You know, I
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: say it changed your life from a perspective. My degree
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: is in mathematics, okay, and my minors in sociology. I
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: graduated from University of Houston, like I went to college
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: because like in your book and tell you talk about
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: you know, that's the way of the world. You know,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: you go to high school, you graduated high school, then
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: you go to college and you get this, you know,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: five or fixed six figure degree. Next time, you know,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: you're married and you're happy. That didn't set well for
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: you again, that good. I always love you. Follow your gut,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: you know, like saying. And so when you were during
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: an internship program in Cleveland, great job, great opportunity, you know,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: eight to five. But every time you started every day,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: the excitement of going, according to your book, started diminishing.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: And that's when you start understanding and admitting to yourself
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: at such a young age. This is not for me
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: talk about that for sure. So first and foremo let
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: me just you know, just add on to that. I
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: drove an hour to work every single morning, and that was, like,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: you know, that was a little different for me, the
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: first time I ever experienced anything like that. So I'm
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: driving an hour, so it's more so like a seven
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: to five or six to five. I had to wake
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: up at six, leave by seven, get to work by eight,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: so it was more like a six to five. And
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: as I'm driving, you know, you're driving and you're waking up. Really,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: you know, it has to be something to motivate you
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: to do that every morning, And for me, the only
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: thing that was motivating me was, you know, if I
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: didn't make it to work on time, they wouldn't offer
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: me a job back, or you know, I wouldn't get paid.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: But you know, it got to the point where I
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: felt like I didn't even want a job back, Like
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I didn't even I didn't even care if they offered
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: me a full time, full time job, because this isn't
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: you know, I felt like this is a part time job.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: And for me, it was like a part time sacrifice,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Like sacrifices are temporary for you to live, you know,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: the way that you really want to. So I understood
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: for me that you know, that job was something that
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: I I necessarily had to do to get to where
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: I wanted to go at the at the at that
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: specific time. But for me, it was just part of
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: the really building the foundation. Like I still you know,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: I owe that job, uh, you know, as as far
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: as being a reason to my success now, like I
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: you know, some of the people that I met and
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: some of the things that I learned, and you know,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: just it was just a humbling experience for me. And
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• 53:59
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  Speaker 1: of secrets, you know, because we always want to know
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• 54:38
  Speaker 1: becomes a profound dialogue in your book, right um, Now, Yeah,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: consistency is a big deal, and you know that's that's
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: really the difference. It's I find it to be easy
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  Speaker 1: to be consistent when you know you're heading in a
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  Speaker 1: direction of where you want to go. Like you know,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: when I was working that job, he it was a
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: lot harder to consistently wake up every morning knowing that
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: this isn't something that I want to do. And no
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: matter how early I wake up, no matter how many
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: donuts I bring to the office, no matter how many
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: how much coffee I buy everybody at the office. I'm
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: still gonna get paid the same amount. I'm still gonna,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: you know, do the same thing that I did yesterday.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Like the project's never really changed. And you know, I
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: wasn't really living I felt I felt like I wasn't
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: really living in my purpose. I felt like I was
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: just another number. And once I became an entrepreneur, yeah,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: I could still wake up early, if not earlier. I
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: could stay up later, if not later, because every every
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: morning that I wake up, this is another opportunity for
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: me to do something that's gonna get me closer to
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: the lifestyle that I really only get to see in
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: my sleep. But you know, when you when you work
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: in a job, you can wake up earlier, wake up
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: the same time, wake up a little later, You're still
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  Speaker 1: gonna get the same results. You know, Entrepreneurship it as
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: far as the consistency goes, It should be a whole
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: lot easier for anybody because one, you can't put a
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  Speaker 1: on the things that you love to do and make
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: an income out of that find a way to support
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: yourself out of that. Absolutely, I'm talking to Bryce Thompson,
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: the author of Millions Accepted, Accepted, and accepted. One of
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: the things that really now we we we we we.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: We talked about a journey up to this point. We
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: talked about the early stage, from grade school, middle school,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: high school, earliers of college. You were focused to be
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. You opportunely focused to be a nine to
• 56:48
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• 56:50
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• 57:04
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• 57:07
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• 57:15
  Speaker 1: say her name, because she probably track you down and
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: beat you up. But she know you're trying to tell her,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: but she has so much doubt. And that's what you can't.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Like you said, you can't take everybody to success. You
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: can talk to him about it, but they have to
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: have the dream locked in and understand what you're trying
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  Speaker 1: who would graduated from college, who showed you the way
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: here you are at more House, you have not completed college,
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: but he showed you an opportunity that it was too
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: much to pass up. Talked about that journey into into
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: the world, a big calm and also investments. Right. Um, well, you,
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  Speaker 1: like I said in the beginning, my my older brother,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was one of my motivations to becoming
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  Speaker 1: successful and you know, doing something and making something out
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  Speaker 1: it is, as long as it's legal, Like I'm not
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: really gonna question it. Of course, you know, of course
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: against my morals. But you know, like we come from
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: the same place as my older brother. When he introduced
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: me to you know, cryptocurrencies and investing, um, it was
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: it was like Chinese to me. It was like a
• 58:35
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• 58:43
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• 58:45
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• 58:48
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• 58:51
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• 58:55
  Speaker 1: so when he is the time and the time and
• 58:58
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• 59:04
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• 59:06
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• 59:08
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• 59:15
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• 59:22
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• 59:28
  Speaker 1: for a college student, for the average person, you know,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: this this could help him out a whole lot. And
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: that was the first time that I started talking about
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: I started telling my friends, I started you know, telling
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: my family members, start really showing them and like you
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: said that, you know the girl that you just mentioned,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: that's why that's when I that's when I really ran
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: into you know, that that feeling of rejection that every
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: entrepreneur is going to experience, right that that rejection feeling
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: like she she rejected me. I tried to show her,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: tried to I feel like it could help her, and
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: she shot me down. She made me feel like what
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• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: my first time experiencing that. Not I I even old,
• 1:00:07
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• 1:00:09
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• 1:00:20
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• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: my goal is to get in front of you. I
• 1:00:24
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• 1:00:27
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• 1:00:30
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• 1:00:31
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• 1:00:33
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• 1:00:38
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• 1:00:52
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• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: of this is the and the and the sad part
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: of this is that you know, spite success, ask despite
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  Speaker 1: doing the right way, you were stereotyped. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: put in jail, told you're gonna be in jail for
• 1:01:06
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• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: telling what direction that would put you and to tell
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  Speaker 1: her what stereotype situation that would have led to even
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  Speaker 1: more incarceration or more frustration. That's just you know that
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: even though you can do it right, because of the
• 1:01:24
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• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: focused point of what I really like about you, you
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: know you you started the Trade House Investment Group with
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: three of your boys. You know you also did that.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: You also have the HBCU scholarship campaign. Did you do
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: with the scholar app? And if anybody knows the scholar
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: app is, it's an online search platform that helps high
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: school seniors you know UH and current undergraduates and graduate
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: students match and win scholarships. In that he has a
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: HBCU scholarship and by the way Privy n M is
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  Speaker 1: one of the school on this platform along with Hampton Howard,
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  Speaker 1: you know living Stone all in more House of course.
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  Speaker 1: So my whole thing is that when when I sit
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: down and talk to you, Bryce man, this this book
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: which I'm definitely gonna recommend to a lot of people.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: In fact, I'm gonna feature you on my Motivational Monday.
• 1:02:12
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• 1:02:15
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• 1:02:17
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• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: needs to be a highlights. In a couple of weeks,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna recommend people to get your book, highlight you
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: on my Motivational Mondays. I've done everybody from Shack uh
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Rick Ross was a couple of weeks ago, so uh
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: to this week. I think I got Will Packer was
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: today as Will Packer. He's been highlighted this week. So
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: next week I gonna be my man, Bryce Thompson. This
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: book is worth it. I'm recommending. I know people have
• 1:02:43
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• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: I was ready for you because you're an inspiration. You
• 1:02:49
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• 1:02:53
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• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: do when I welcome you into my studio, realized that
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: it's a blessing for me because it's an honor to
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: understand your values that you were able to understand at
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: such an early age. I didn't figured it out to
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: a loud forty Okay, you figured it out, you know,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: when you was twenty two, all right, and you're willing
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: to share it to your scholarships through your I M
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Millennial events. The last one was at the hard Rock Stadium,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: you know, with your brother came over here brag and
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: telling me all the thousands of thousands of people showing up.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: But I love both of y'all. Man. But uh, And
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: just wrapping up this interview, rights anything you want to
• 1:03:28
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• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: they should really invest in reading your book. Millennials accepted
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• 1:03:41
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• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: that's a just supports me, but any upcoming entrepreneur. UM,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: anybody that you know wants to to to make something greater,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: to do something greater, to get some something greater, to
• 1:03:53
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• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: having something or acquiring what you want to acquire is
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: actually getting it and then losing it. So, you know,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: what's big for me and just my whole journey and
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: how I came into the entrepreneurial space and what I'm
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna continue to share light on not just
• 1:04:13
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• 1:04:17
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• 1:04:20
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• 1:04:23
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• 1:04:26
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• 1:04:29
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• 1:04:31
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• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: when we actually get it. People know how to make money,
• 1:04:36
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• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: lot of people know how to multiply money. So, you know,
• 1:04:42
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• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: with your money and knowing how to move when you
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: acquire a certain level of success is gonna, uh you know,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: in turn allow you to keep it once you gain it.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: And I think that's that's that's one of the most
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: powerful things that I want to share light on especially
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: for young entrepreneurs that look look like me. Once you
• 1:05:01
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• 1:05:04
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• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: ten twenty thirty years down the line so we could
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: pass it down to the next generation. But um for
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: Sean again, I appreciate the opportunity. Like you know, people
• 1:05:15
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• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: minutes early to make shows on and I'm looking forward to,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: you know, hopefully talking to meet you in the future.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: Over will Man again, thank you for coming on the show,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Bryce Thompson. He'll be featured on my Motivational on Monday,
• 1:05:29
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  Speaker 1: and accepted man. Thanks for coming on Money Making Conversation. Okay, cool.
• 1:05:39
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• 1:05:41
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